1874-1918 History of West Africa Gold Coast
1939-1957






Gold Coast, 1919-1939



In 1919, TOGOLAND was officially granted to Britain as a MANDATE by the League of Nations.
By the 1920es, the Gold Coast had emerged as the world's preeminent supplier of COCOA. Other export items were manganese, timber and some gold, which once had given the area it's name.
Political movements aiming for independence were founded.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		Ghana, History of, from Infoplease
DOCUMENTS
REFERENCE W.E.F. Ward, The Colonial Phase in British West Africa, pp.405-439 in : JF. Ade Ajayi and Ian Espie (ed.), A Thousand Years in West African History, Ibadan UP (1965) 1967 [G]
Article : West Africa : Gold Coast, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1919 pp.239-241, 1924 pp.248-250, 1925 pp.253-255, 1926 pp.255-256, 1928 pp.253-255, 1929 pp.256-258, 1932 pp.258-260, 1937 pp.279-282 [G]
Article : West Africa : Ashanti, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1919 p.241, 1924 p.250, 1925 p.255, 1926 pp.256-257, 1928 pp.255-256, 1929 p.258, 1932 p.260, 1937 pp.282-283 [G]
Article : West Africa : Northern Territories, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1919 pp.241-242, 1924 pp.250-251, 1925 pp.255-256, 1926 p.257, 1928 p.256, 1929 pp.258-259, 1932 pp.260-261, 1937 pp.283 [G]
Article : Gold Coast, in : Americana Annual 1927 pp.381-382, 1928 p.339, 1930 pp.353-354, 1931 pp.351-352, 1932 p.320, 1933 pp.351-352, 1934 p.276, 1935 pp.323-324, 1936 p.323, 1937 pp.319-320 [G]



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