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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 ...
In 1957, Ghana became the first sub-Saharan colony to achieve its independence, followed the next year by France's colonies; by 1974, West Africa's nations were entirely autonomous. Since independence, many West African nations have been plagued by corruption and instability, with notable civil wars in Nigeria , Sierra Leone , Liberia , and ...
The Political history of Ghana traces the evolution of governance in Ghana from pre-colonial times through the colonial era and into the post-independence period. Before European intervention, Ghana was a diverse region composed of multiple states and ethnic groups, each with distinct political structures.
By the end of the century, some large states had emerged, with the Anlo being the largest. Although the Ewe did not form a centralized kingdom, they cooperated in times of danger. These alliances were normally dissolved after the danger was resolved. In 1783, the Anlo came into conflict with the Danes, where they were conquered into the Danish ...
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.
Scramble for Africa: Africa in the years 1880 and 1913, just before the First World War. The Scramble for Africa between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.
The end of empire in French West Africa: France's successful decolonization (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002). Chamberlain, Muriel E. ed. Longman Companion to European Decolonisation in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2014) Clayton, Anthony. The wars of French decolonization (Routledge, 2014). Cooper, Frederick.
Because Ghana is surrounded by French-speaking countries, French is widely taught in schools and used for commercial and international economic exchanges. Since 2005, Ghana has been an associate member of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie , [ 182 ] the global organisation that unites French-speaking countries (84 nations on six ...