How Adu Boahen unlocked Ghana's history

From: New African | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Duodu, Cameron | Copyright information

When the British historian, W. F. Ward, wrote in his 1948 book, History of the Gold Coast that the main ethnic groups of the Gold Coast - among them the Akan, the Akwamu, the Ga, and the Ewe - were relative "newcomers" to the country, and that "there is no nation now dwelling in the Gold Coast which has been in the country longer than the European ... we may [thus] take the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries as the beginning of the Gold Coast history", little did he know ...

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