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Ghana: West Africa
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Until he was removed from power by a coup in 1966, Nkrumah used football as a tool to depict how strong Africa and Ghana could be. The sport became well supported and this led to Ghana becoming one of the most powerful footballing nations in Africa.[7]
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Ghana is one of the first African countries to have an incipient humanist movement. Like most African nations, Ghana was formerly under European colonial rule, but it was not widely settled by Europeans because of its inhospitable climate.
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By West African standards, Ghana has a relatively diverse and rich natural resource base Minerals--principally gold, diamonds, manganese ore, and bauxite--are produced and exported. Exploration for oil and gas resources is ongoing. Timber and marine resources are important but declining resources.
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G[H]ana's rich history centers on the once-great Ashanti empire, which rose to power during the late 17th century and continued to prosper as a center of the 18th century slave trade. The Ashanti capital, Kumasi, was during this period one of the finest and most advanced cities in Africa, and the Ashanti state even employed significant numbers of Europeans as advisors and administrators. The European presence in Ghana is ... marked by the multitude of colonial forts that dot its coastline--strongholds that anchored the European trade in gold, ivory, and slaves. Although Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast, was largely considered a British territory by the latter half of the 19th century, it wasn't until 1900 that the British succeeded in defeating the Ashanti and the area's other strong kingdoms.
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Like in the rest of Africa, the rain forest in Ghana is disappearing rapidly. In Kakum you have the opportunity to see one of the last parts of rain forest from a very special corner. On suspension bridges you can walk through the tops of the rain forest. Up there you sometimes are lifted 30 meters from the ground. You can enjoy a beautiful view from up here and it is a good occasion for bird and butterfly spotting. With some luck you can ... get a glimpse of the Spot-nose, Campbell's or Colobus monkeys.
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Ghana is located on West Africa's Gulf of Guinea only a few degrees north of the Equator. To the south is 330 miles of coastline. To the north, Ghana shares a border with Burkina Faso. To the west is the Ivory Coast, and to the east is Togo.
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