The History of Ghana in 10 Minutes
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- The History of Ghana in 10 minutes
Welcome to Displore and Thanks for watching, as you all know it is always a pleasure presenting to you the beautiful countries of Africa. In today’s video we are looking at the history of Ghana in 10 minutes. The Republic of Ghana is named after the medieval West African Ghana Empire. The empire became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. The Empire appears to have broken up following the 1076 conquest by the Almoravid General Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar. A reduced kingdom continued to exist after Almoravid rule ended, and the kingdom was later incorporated into subsequent Sahelian empires, such as the Mali Empire several centuries later. Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately800km north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Senegal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal, Mauritania and Mali. Ghana is today known as the gold Coast of Africa and the history of this great African nation is an important part of its present and future. Hence, without much ado, here is the history of Ghana in 10 minutes.
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Little is known of the small African kingdoms in the region between the Tano and Volta rivers until the arrival of Europeans in the 15th century. Portuguese navigators, working their way down the west African coast, reach this area in 1471 and build a fortress at Elmina in 1482. But others follow fast. As early as 1492 a French buccaneer, marauding off the coast, deprives a Portuguese ship of its precious cargo.That cargo was gold, and the Gold Coast becomes the European name for this part of Africa. The trade in gold with the Europeans makes possible the development in the early 17th century of Akwamu, the first African state to control an extensive part of the coast.During the 18th century the dominance of Akwamu is replaced by that of a much more powerful group, the Ashanti, with their capital inland at Kumasi. By this time the British, Dutch and Danes are the main European traders on this part of the coast, and the most valuable commodity for export was not gold but slaves.
Trading slaves for muskets, among other western commodities, the Ashanti acquire great local power. Their king, the Asantehene, enthroned on a traditional golden stool, holds sway over the entire central region of modern Ghana. But the Ashanti suffer a series of major blows between 1804 and 1814, when the Danes, British and Dutch each in turn outlaw the slave trade.The resulting tension leads to warfare in the 1820s with the defeat of a British force in 1824 and again in the 1870s. In 1874 a British army briefly occupies Kumasi.
Meanwhile, in the coastal regions, the British are gradually emerging as the main European power. The Danish fortresses including the impressive Christiansburg castle in Accra are bought by the British government in 1850. The last Dutch merchants abandon the coast in 1870. And in 1874 the southern regions are formally proclaimed a British colony, under the name Gold Coast. But it takes another three decades before the Ashanti kingdom, and its dependencies in the north, are finally brought under British control.In 1901, taking effect from 1 January 1902, Ashanti is declared a British crown colony. The regions further north become at the same time the Protectorate of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast.
The colonial years are relatively prosperous and untroubled. At first little is done to involve the African population in the political processes of the colony. But in the years immediately after World War II events move so fast that the Gold Coast becomes the first colony in sub-Saharan Africa to win its independence. The turning point is the return home in 1947 of Kwame Nkrumah after twelve years of study and radical politics in the USA and Britain.
Nkrumah is invited back to the Gold Coast to become general secretary of the United Gold Coast Convention, an organization campaigning for self-government. The UGCC has won the right in 1946 for an African majority in the colony's legislative assembly, but the fight is now on for a share in executive power.Nkrumah rapidly extends the movement's popular base, with the result that there are widespread riots in February 1948. The older UGCC leaders are alarmed by this and by their brief arrest with Nkrumah. A split within the movement leads to Nkrumah founding in June 1949 the Convention People's Party, committed to immediate self-government.From January 1950 Nkrumah organizes a campaign of nonviolent protests and strikes, which lands him back in jail. But in the colony's first general election, in February 1951, the CPP wins convincingly even in the absence of its leader. Nkrumah is released from prison to join the government and in 1952 he becomes prime minister.
Ghana, a beacon of peace and democracy. We thank God for how far He has brought us.
Very proud of my Mother land. Soon all Africa will be great without external influences 🙏
and hopefully do a better, greener job of it than industrial exploiters did and continue to do
Great country Ghana 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭💪
I have few friends from Ghana. Honourable and proud ppl. Much respect from Poland. Only the best for you.
Thanks for Sharing 👍
Great content. I have Ghanian ancestry roots. Great information.
come home bro
Kwateng Mickey indeed family I certainly want to. Trying to plan it out. Much Love
@@Diwani_Spark14 great, let me know when you want to come .
The Empire of Wagadu or Empire of Ghana has nothing to do with modern day Ghana as stated in the video. Ancient Ghana is Formed by the Soninke Mande group. Who live in Mostly in present day Mali. Also Ghana is what they called the king the place was actually called Wagadu.
I realize this is a 10 minute history so it is by necessity just the briefest telling. However, I've noticed that the majority of this history is of the modern age, and just a little bit from the 100 years before that. But this region has been there for thousands of years and I was hoping that more of these 10 minutes would cover that very long period. This is like a "history of Italy" that covers mainly post WW2 time, a droplet of information from 1800 on, and misses the very significant Roman period, Middle Ages, and Renaissance.
Then do your own research, as you already noticed, it’s just a brief summary of Ghana’s ( latest and important) history
@@SJ-ug8kb “do your own research”.
Seriously? What do you think someone is doing who is watching a video titled “A history of Ghana”?
@@Leopold3131 you Are watching a summary of Information someone else’s researched you genius, have you never been to school and have done a presentation about a topic 🤧
@@SJ-ug8kb Give him some resources since you know so much
It’s a pity that they never had weapons to stop those people landing on the shores. Imagine if they had something like a massive catapult to sink them ships before they landed.
They traded with them
You dident listen to the video. They traded with them
@@kno1o802 traded gold not slaves
The europeans bought the slaves. The slaves were taken to the markets by slave traders, the europeans never did the capturing Just the buying.
@@ianbrighouse3056 when they landed that was the worst thing that happened not just in Africa but in all corners of the world! Because as you can see they didn't come with good intentions did they. That's why Australia, new Zealand, Canada, America are all stolen lands. What happened to the natives of those countries? Imagine if that was your country that happened too. How would you feel?
Fascinating .. ☺️☝️..
First to watch and Ghanian as well
Ghanaian*
Same
Ashantis became powerful not because of slaves but because of the gold they possessed. Majority of gold in Ghana comes from the Ashanti region
is a lie Sefwi has the most in Ghana
@@brightasante2117 obuasi in the Ashanti region has been the backbone of Ghana in terms of gold for decades
Is Jxt because is a popular mining town
Bt the Sefwi's really has the Gold
@@brightasante2117 which Sefwi?
Maybe you're referring to Tarkwa in the Western Region.
How do you know.
This is great
Wonderful!
God bless Ghana
Nice work, but a documentary shouldn't have a fast paced narration.
This is the I was born and I loved it
The Empire was formed by the Soninke people who are a Mande group. The first king was Dinga Cisse , the name of the empire is Wagadu the name of the kings was ghana which means warrior king in Soninke language.
The Ghana at the start of the video is different from the modern day Ghana
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So if Ghana was the first country in Africa to get its independence who was the second country to get their independence???
@@elvisyeboah3186 I already did that weeks ago so go away
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Google it 😆😆😆🤦♂️
@@kno1o802 I already did like 7 months so go away 😆😆😆
@@abby-a 😆😆😆😆👍
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A history of Ghana without Bonoman and Bonos are incomplete. Get this facts right
They only got wrong information about Ghana all the time without Bono's where was Ghana
@@mosesagyemanbadu249
Say it again bro, Bonos played a major role in fighting for Ghana's Independence, prior to that even, Bonos had significant influence in all aspects of Ghana(Gold Coast) history
@@asiedu_augustine yes
Can you imagine
When are u going to do why u need to visit Eritrea 🇪🇷
What building is on the thumbnail
Jubilee House formerly known as Flag staff House.
THATS MY country(I don’t live there but I’m from there
If the president is the president for Life he's a king not a president only one political party is not a republic or democracy
10:20 That is John Mahama and not Aliu Mahama.
The new boss at work is Ashanti
This guy is a bossy control freak. I dont know why..
That's
Incredible the amount of coups that have taken place since independence.. 🤦♂️🤯Lets hope that the country can prósper and have some polítical stability.
You left out the 1948 riots.

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Ghana let's buy Chinese cars and put our decals and stickers on them and say we made them
the story was told upside down
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Thanks to a hustler crooked preacher they lead the world in Super cyborg soldiers
Go Ghana!
How come all the internet scammer come from Ghana.
Only France, Portugese, British n Dutch used to do these things not other Nations.
Yeah the ancient empire it was a part of wakanda wasn't it I bet it had a force field to protect it
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The kingdom is is called Wagadu the king was called Gana the Kingdom is formed by the Soninke Mande people. It has nothing to do with modern day ghana.
I always hear people always talking nonsense, Ashanti's didn't sell any body get it to your brains .
They did. That's why they engaged in so many wars with other tribes. To defend themselves, the coastal tribes (Fantes, Ga-Dangmes, Anlos, etc.) sought refuge under British protection. The coastal tribes united with the British to fight the very notorious Battle of Katamanso in which the Asantes were completely defeated. The coastal tribes willingly and officially became a British Colony under The Bond of 1844 to protect themselves against Asante invasion and slavery.
After ndc spending over 30 years ruling Ghana. They never have any plans for the country. Mahama kill atta mills painfully and cause so much pains on Ghanaian
how can you make such a comment? can you prove that Mahama killed Atta Mills? Please don't be making false accusations...
@@kwamebenson911 is that a lie. Has he ever deny it. Who doesn't know mahama
@@adupako1057 exactly
Npp
Npp
This guy seems to be very interested in Ghana history. Why? Most on the things you say are all Wrong and made up. Stop making money on Ghana's history, ok.
You should concentrate on your own country Nigeria's history which was mainly known as the Slave Coast before becoming Nigeria. Don't blame you Nigeria doesn't have interesting history to tell the world. Apart from corruption and fraudulent 419.
bad time lines bad pictures
Ashanti didn’t get powerful because of slavery point of correction
They did. That's why they engaged in so many wars with other tribes. To defend themselves, the coastal tribes (Fantes, Ga-Dangmes, Anlos, etc.) sought refuge under British protection. The coastal tribes united with the British to fight the very notorious Battle of Katamanso in which the Asantes were completely defeated. The coastal tribes willingly and officially became a British Colony under The Bond of 1844 to protect themselves against Asante invasion and slavery.
The Empire was formed by the Soninke people who are a Mande group. The first king was Dinga Cisse , the name of the empire is Wagadu the name of the kings was ghana which means warrior king in Soninke language.