Ghana History

March 6, 1957

Independence day in Ghana

Colonization

One country taking over another area to be used for their benefit

British colony

The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.

Independence

The state of being independent in a group or country

Adinkra

They are visual symbols, originally created by the Ashanti, that represent concepts or aphorisms.

High life music

a music genre that originated in Ghana at the turn of the 20th century.

Palm wine music

also known as maringa in Sierra Leone is a type of West African musical genre.

Ghana Empire

first of the great medieval trading empires of west Africa.

Gold coast

former name of Ghana during colonial times.

Black star

in the Ghana flag stands for the lodestar of African freedom. It is also a direction showing symbol, means follow ghana to independence.

Jerry Rawlings

is a former head of state and president of Ghana.

Kente

is a typic of silk and cotton fabric made of interwoven cloth strips and is native to the Akan ethnic group of South Ghana.

John Mahama

is the current President of Ghana, in office since 2012. Mahama served as the Vice President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012, and took office as President on 24 July 2012

Kwame Nkrumah

led Ghana to independence from Britain in 1957 and served as its first prime minister and president.

Freedom

the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.

John Atta Mills

was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012.

John Kofi Kuffour

was a retired Ghanaian politician and statesman who served as President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009. He was also Chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008.

Kofi Annan

was born 8 April 1938. He is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.

Ghana

was known as Gold Coast was changed to Ghana after independence by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and Dr. J. B. Danquah.

Big six

were six leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), the leading political party in the British colony of the Gold Coast.