Ghana's Awesome History

Ghana was formerly known as the gold Coast. The Portuguese cam to Ghana near the 15th century, and found a lot of gold between two rivers. They named the place Mina, meaning mine in Portuguese. While they were there they built a huge castle, ordered by their king. There aims were gold, slaves, and ivory.

The British later came to Ghana, and then Ghana was colonized. This was similar to the French adopting the Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire). Much later the Dutch came and joined them. They won over the castle that the Portuguese had built from the Portuguese. Other Europeans, Danes, Swedes, and English, came and joined them. The coastlines were covered by forts built by the Dutch, British, and Danes.

By the 19th century the Dutch and The British were the only Europeans left. The Dutch decided to leave in the late 1800’s, and when they left Britain made the Gold Coast a crown colony. Ghana was doing pretty well, and where exporting tons of Gold every day. There were also many slaves in Ghana.

With so much gold being exported from Ghana, the railways had to be expanded. They also started to export cocoa, only first to Britain, but then it expanded and they began to export to more countries. In 1957 Ghana inherited 200 pounds from the British, which was considered a lot of money.

From 1957 to now Ghana has gone through many political difficulties such as freedom, health care, taxes, inflation, and many more.