Accra Gallery

Politicians, Accra, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa

Group photo of politicians (members of the Gold Coast Cabinet), Accra, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa, photographed on 17 July 1956, the date of the legislative election which brought Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party to power. Date: 1956

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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Farewell to scout commissioner, Ghana, West Africa

Scouts say farewell to their commissioner, Ghana, West Africa. Major and Mrs W H Donald visited Accra headquarters as guests of honour on their retirement from the country. Showing the Governor, Sir Alan Burns (right), presenting an illuminated address to Major Donald (centre). Date: 1944

© Mary Evans / The Scout Association

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Port of Christianborg near Accra, 1873

This former Swedish outpost on the Gold Coast was sold to the British in 1873 when, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana, the British attacked and virtually destroyed the Asanti capital of Kumasi, and officially declared Ghana a crown colony on 24 July 1874. They then moved their administrative capital from Cape Coast Castle to Accra and their new acquisition, the Fort of Christianborg

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