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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 ...
African's Black Star: The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah is a 2011 film about the rise and fall of this colonial rebellion leader. A golden statue of Nkrumah is a centerpiece in Ghanaian rapper Serious Klein's 2021 video "Straight Outta Pandemic". [281]
As a result, black Americans looked to Ghana as that new Promised Land". [4] As Ghana became a free nation, it carried the hopes and dreams of people who identified with the African continent. Ghana served as a symbol of inspiration to people of African descent, that Africa was not the barbaric land that it was made out to be.
Ghana was the first African country colonised by European powers to achieve independence under majority rule. During the first three years after independence, from 1957 to 1960, Ghana was a Commonwealth realm [ 1 ] with a Westminster system of government and Elizabeth II , the British monarch , served as Queen of Ghana .
The Ghana Empire (Arabic: غانا), also known as simply Ghana, [2] Ghanata, or Wagadu, was a West African classical to post-classical era western-Sahelian empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali. It is uncertain among historians when Ghana's ruling dynasty began.
Gold Coast Euro-Africans were a historical demographic based in coastal urban settlements in colonial Ghana, that arose from unions between European men and African women from the late 15th century – the decade between 1471 and 1482, until the mid-20th century, circa 1957, when Ghana attained its independence.
Accra has long attracted African-American tourists since the country became the first African country to gain independence from the United Kingdom in 1957 (W. E. B. DuBois settled in Ghana in his last years and is buried in Accra), and the government has made controversial overtures to gain more African-American residents and tourists ...
2004 December - John Kufuor re-elected as president of Ghana. 2006 - Ghana National football team, the black stars play in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. 2007 March - Ghana @ 50 celebrations mark 50 years of independence from Britain. 2007 June - Ghana discovers oil in commercial quantities. The oil reserves total 3 billion barrels.