At the same time African Nationalists were increasingly ... and diplomat K.B. Asante talk about pre-Independence Ghana The Gold Coast in the 1950's was a country with the highest level of ...

Ghana was one of the first African countries to do this. It had been part of the British Empire since 1874. Europeans referred to the region as the Gold Coast due to the amount of gold found there.

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 ...