Title:
Kumasi, Ashanti, Gold Coast, West Africa, c1890. Artist: Unknown
Caption:
Kumasi, Ashanti, Gold Coast, West Africa, c1890. In 1957, the Gold Coast became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to become independent, and was renamed Ghana. An engraving from Robert Brown's The Countries of the World, published by Cassell, (London & Paris, c1890).