ACCRA, British Gold Coast Colony, April 6 -- The situation in Ashanti is unchanged. A Coomassie runner reports that all the Ashanti tribes are in arms, the King of Bekwai alone remaining loyal.

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 ...

Africa is a continent full of natural resources. From gold and diamonds to huge oil reserves, the continent has a lot of wealth within it. With that comes a lot of competition, especially when it ...

200,000) British Gold Coast city of Accra behind a glittering façade of chrome-plated supermodernity. In the last-minute bustle, newly imported foreign taxicabs tangled endlessly with native ...