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Prior to 1943, Gold Coast was an extractive colony producing gold and cocoa. During the war, U-boat attacks limited commercial shipping to West Africa. As a result, the Colonial Development Fund was used to finance the West African Institute of Industries, Arts and Social Sciences, in 1943, under the direction of British official Herman Meyerowitz.
The area of the Republic of Ghana (the then Gold Coast) became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. [1] Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Sénégal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal ...
1873–1874 Third Anglo-Ashanti War. January 31, 1874 Battle of Amoaful; February 4, 1874 Battle of Ordashu; December 1895 – February 1896 Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War; March 1900 – September 1900 War of the Golden Stool; July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I. August 3, 1914 – November 23, 1918 African theatre of World War I
First Liberian Civil War [6] (1990-1997) Master Sergeant Thomas A. Nelson (right) of the 3rd US Army Special Forces Group inspects Ghanaian troops of ECOMOG at Roberts International Airport located outside of Monrovia, Liberia: ECOMOG Ghana; Others; NPFL: Defeat. NPFL victory; Rwandan Civil War (1993-1994) UNAMIR Ghana; Others; Rwanda: Defeat ...
[2] The unrest in Accra, and in other towns and cities, would last for five days, during which both Asian and European-owned stores and businesses were looted and more deaths occurred. [17] By 1 March, the Governor had declared a state of emergency and a new Riot Act was put in place. [2]
During the Second World War, the regiment raised nine battalions, and saw action in Kenya's Northern Frontier District, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia and Burma as part of the 82nd West African Division, the 24th Gold Coast Brigade, [2] and the 2nd (West Africa) Infantry Brigade. [1]
The nucleus of the Ghana Navy is the Gold Coast Naval Volunteer Force formed during World War II. It was established by the colonial British administration to conduct seaward patrols to ensure that the coastal waters of the colony were free from mines. Following Ghana's attainment of independent nationhood on 6 March 1957 from the UK, the ...
By the late 19th century, the British, through conquest or purchase, occupied most of the forts along the coast. Two major factors laid the foundations of British rule and the eventual establishment of a colony on the Gold Coast: British reaction to the Asante wars and the resulting instability and disruption of trade, and Britain's increasing preoccupation with the suppression and elimination ...