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During his time in Britain, Nkrumah came to know such outspoken anti-colonialists and intellectuals as the West Indian George Padmore, and the African-American W. E. B. Du Bois [159] In 1947, when the UGCC was created in the Gold Coast to oppose colonial rule, Nkrumah was invited from London to become the movement's general secretary. [153] [160]
In 1957, the Gold Coast Colony, the Ashanti Colony, the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Protectorate and the British Togoland Trust Territory, became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations called Ghana. The Governor-General of Ghana served as the representative of the Queen of Ghana, whose formal title in ...
Danish Gold Coast Settlements established on the eastern Gold Coast: 1658: Heinrich Carloff, Opperhoved [1] 1659: Samuel Schmidt, Opperhoved 1659 to 1662: Jost Cramer, Opperhoved 1662 to 1668: Henning Albrecht, Opperhoved 1668 to 1674: Bartholomaus von Gronstein, Governor—1st to be designated as governor 1674 to 1677: Conrad Crull, Governor [2]
A contemporary drawing of Fort Christiansborg, now Osu Castle.The outpost to the right is Fort Prøvestenen. The Danish Gold Coast (Danish: Danske Guldkyst or Dansk Guinea) comprised the colonies that Denmark–Norway controlled in Africa as a part of the Gold Coast (roughly present-day southeast Ghana), which is on the Gulf of Guinea.
The Dano-Dutch colonial conflict on the Gold Coast (Danish: Dansk-Hollandske kolonikonflikt på Guldkysten, Dutch: Deens-Nederlands koloniaal conflict aan de Goudkust) was a colonial conflict between the Danes and Dutch over the control of European fortifications on the Gold Coast.
Brandenburger Gold Coast and Prussian Gold Coast (Germans, 1682–1721) British Gold Coast ( English , 1821–1957) Ghana is the legal name for the region loosely referred to as the Gold Coast comprising the following four separate parts, which immediately before independence had distinct constitutional positions: [ 2 ]
This article lists the colonial governors of the Dutch Gold Coast. During the Dutch presence on the Gold Coast, which lasted from 1598 to 1872, the title of the head of the colonial government changed several times: [1] 1675–1798: Director-General (Dutch: directeur-generaal) 1798–1810: Governor-General (Dutch: gouverneur-generaal)
Pages in category "Governors of the Gold Coast (British colony)" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .