WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Gold Coast was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana.

Detailed explanation-2: -Formal colonialism first came to the region we today call Ghana in 1874, and British rule spread through the region into the early twentieth century. The British called the territory the “Gold Coast Colony”.

Detailed explanation-3: -The History of The Republic of Ghana Prior to independence on March 6, 1957, Ghana was called the Gold Coast. The earliest Europeans to set foot on the land were the Portuguese in the 15th century (1471).

Detailed explanation-4: -Present day Ghana is the product of the British colonization of a territory that they called the Gold Coast. This colony evolved from small coastal trading settlements, former slave castles, trading centers, and mission stations to the establishment of the Crown’s colony of the Gold Coast in 1874.

Detailed explanation-5: -From 1880-1900 Britain gained control over or occupied what are now known as Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Gambia, Sierra Leone, northwestern Somalia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Nigeria, Ghana, and Malawi.