Ghana

Continent: Africa
Capital: Accra
Abolition Date:
Start Date: 1482: The Portuguese built their first permanent trading post on the western coast of present-day Ghana. This fortress, Elmina Castle, constructed to protect Portuguese trade from European competitors and hostile Africans, still stands
Currency: Cedi

Languages Spoken: English (official), African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga)
Population: As estimated in late 2006, is 22,019,000.
National Anthem: "God Bless Our Homeland Ghana"

Europeans and the Portuguese arrived in 1471, to trade in gold, spices, ivory and other African artefacts.

Many important African resistors to the slave trade, Tacky, Albert Sam, Quamina and Cudjoe for example, had their roots in Ghana.

Ghana also had about 60 slave markets, whose defence walls and mud roofing architecture were meant to prevent slave raids. Despite the inhumanity of Europe’s slave trade, great and important empires remained in Ghana and the traditions of the Asante and the Fante continue in the Ghana of today.

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