March 6, 1957: Ghana became the first country in Africa south of the Sahara to gain independence from colonial rule. Africa and the rest of the world follows the creation of the new state with high anticipations. The situation in Ghana inspire nationalist movements all over the continent. The...

The present boundaries of Ghana, enclosing an area of about 240,000 km sq., and with a population of about 18 million in 1998, were carved out in stages from nineteenth century, by foreign powers when they began spreading their sphere of influence in West Africa. Until the country's present...

The history of the Gold Coast before the last quarter of the 15th century is derived primarily from oral tradition that refers to migrations from the ancient kingdoms of the western Soudan (the area of Mauritania and Mali). The Gold Coast was renamed Ghana upon independence in 1957 because...

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Aoukar was popularly known as "Ghana" It is not yet certain how and when Ghana was founded. But from Arab sources, particularly; the Tarikh as Sudan, it appears to have been founded by a Soninke dynasty between AD 300-400. The Ghana Kingdom was situated on the grassland north of headwaters of...