Contributions of gold to the Ghanaian economy Gold plays a vital role in Ghana’s economy, contributing significantly to ...

It had been part of the British Empire since 1874 ... She wrote regularly in The Times of West Africa, which was one of the Gold Coast’s first newspapers. It was first published in 1932.

It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in search of gold. The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron ...

In the event it was African nationalists who took charge of events, starting in West Africa ... of the United Gold Coast Convention. He was imprisoned by the British for inciting people to ...