
The national flag of Ghana consists of a horizontal triband of Red, Gold, and Green. It was designed in replacement of the Gold Coast colony's Blue Ensign.. The flag was adopted upon the independence of the Dominion of Ghana on March 6, 1957. It was designed the same year by Theodosia Okoh, a renowned Ghanaian artist. The flag was flown until 1964 and it was then …

Kwame Nkrumah PC (born 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and winner …

Miningglobal estimates Ghana's gold reserves to be 1,000 metric tonnes. 2. South Africa – 118.2 tonnes. Declining gold ore grades in South Africa over the past eight decades have seen the country lose its African top spot to Ghana. In 2019, gold production fell to 118 metric tonnes from 137 metric tonnes in the previous year.

Established in 2004, the Gold Fields Ghana Foundation has invested over US$90.8m in development projects and programmes in host communities of our Tarkwa and Damang mines in the Western Region of Ghana. The Gold Fields Ghana Foundation is the first foundation to be set up by a mining company in the country.

Ghana succumbed to attacks by its neighbors in the 11th century, but its name and reputation endured. In 1957, when the leaders of the former British colony of the Gold Coast sought an appropriate name for their newly independent state—the first black African nation to gain its independence from colonial rule—they named their new country after ancient Ghana.

Gold Trade and the Mali Empire By 1050, Ghana was strong enough to assume control of the Islamic Berber town of Audaghost. By the end of the twelfth century, however, Ghana had lost its domination of the western Sudan gold trade. Trans-Saharan routes began to bypass Audaghost, expanding instead toward the newly opened Bure goldfield. ...

Please visit the Embassy's COVID-19 page for more information on entry/exit requirements related to COVID-19 in Ghana.. Visit the Embassy of Ghana website for the most current visa information.. Proof of Yellow Fever vaccination is required upon arrival in Ghana for anyone over nine months of age. Foreign nationals who are over six years old and who have …

The University of Ghana is the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. It was founded in 1948, in the British colony of the Gold Coast, as the University College of the Gold Coast, and was originally an affiliate college of the University of London, which supervised its academic programs and awarded degrees. After independence in 1957, …