Category: ghana
Ghana – officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
Spanning a land mass of 238,535 km. Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north.
Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south. Ghana means “Warrior King” in the Soninke language. The territory of present-day Ghana has been inhabited for a millennium, with the first permanent state dating back to the 11th century. Numerous kingdoms and empires emerged over the centuries, of which the most powerful was the Kingdom of Ashanti. Beginning in the 15th century, numerous European powers contested the area for trading rights. With the British ultimately establishing control of the coast by the late 19th century. Following over a century of native resistance. Ghana’s current borders were established by the 1900s as the British Gold Coast. On 6 March 1957, it became the first sub-Saharan African nation to become independent of European colonisation.
В 1940-х годах усилилась освободительная борьба народов Золотого Берега, которая под руководством Кваме Нкрумы увенчалась провозглашением независимости.
С 6 марта 1957 года страна стала именоваться Ганой -Ghana.
Кваме Нкрума ориентировался во внутренней и внешней политике на социалистические страны. В первую очередь на СССР и КНР, и проводил реформы, направленные на усиление государственного сектора в экономике и избавление страны от экономической зависимости со стороны колониальных держав. Но в стране крепло недовольство его авторитарным стилем правления, коррупцией и отсутствием ощутимых результатов преобразований.