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On 6 March 1957, the Gold Coast became independent Ghana under Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, a landmark that energised anticolonial and Pan-African movements.
British power expanded unevenly through treaties, warfare and annexation, reshaping government and the export economy while Gold Coast communities resisted, negotiated and built new political movements.
Forts on the coast of present-day Ghana became major sites in the trafficking of enslaved Africans, leaving a painful legacy that connects Ghana with communities across the Atlantic world.
From the late seventeenth century, the Asante state united Akan polities around Kumasi and built a powerful system of government, trade, military organisation and court culture.
The Golden Stool, or Sika Dwa Kofi, is the supreme symbol of Asante unity and sovereignty; tradition holds that it embodies the collective spirit of the Asante nation.