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 ...
Gold Coast nationalists had campaigned for home ... on Ghana's independence The touch-paper had been lit for the rest of Africa. In 1959 an independent Ghana hosted the Accra All African People's ...
The slave forts dotted along what was called the Gold Coast are a looming reminder of ... of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa (later the Royal African Company).