Category: Ghana

Colonisation of Africa

The Partition of Africa The Scramble for Africa, occurring in the late nineteenth century, saw European powers divide and claim nearly the entire continent. Formalized during the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, European nations established rules for colonization without African representation, leading to arbitrary borders that ignored indigenous cultures and political landscapes. This period transformed Africa, […]

Empires of the Sahel

Gold and Empires of the Sahel European expansion is often seen as the trigger for modern history, but in reality, globalisation came even earlier to West Africa’s Sahel region, underpinned by the gold trade. Analysis by archaeologists of the gold coins used in Tunis and Libya suggests a major change around the ninth century CE, […]

Africa’s Gold Coast

Africa’s Gold Coast and the Gold Trade West Africa’s fabled ‘Gold Coast’, the former region on the Gulf of Guinea now known as Ghana, was once best known for its relationship with the expanding global money supply. Providing gold for the Atlantic trade from the 15th century, this was a spin off from an even […]