Ghana Formation: Who Came First?

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  1. 1821 Fantes were constituted first into the British Gold Coast Colony with the capital as Cape Coast .
  2. 1850 Ga , Dangbe , Ewe (Anlos and Tongus) and Akan ( present day South-East Ghana ) existed as Danish Gold Coast which got incorporated into British Gold Coast as second constituents ( comers ) .
  3. 1872 Dutch Gold Coast was incorporated into British Gold Coast with Fantes and Nzemas as locals .
  4. 1874 The Gold Coast Colony was established from all the above territories which comprised of the entire coastal areas from Aflao to Axim and extended inland as far as the borders of Ashanti .
  5. 1877 The capital was moved from Cape Coast Castle to Osu Castle in Accra .( All this time, Ashanti and the Northern territories were not part of the Gold Coast)
  6. 1901 Ashanti became a British Colony by conquest and was incorporated into the Gold Coast .
  7. 1901 The Northern Territories became a British protectorate and were incorporated into Gold Coast .
  8. 1956 British Togoland was incorporated into Gold Coast after a plebiscite .
  9. 6 March 1957 Gold Coast got independence and was named Ghana 🇬🇭.

Teach and preach these sacred facts in the bedroom , schools , churches , mosques , ghettos , and the airwaves and the tribal bigotry in Ghana will stop !.

A bit of Ghanaian history

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