Background+about+Ghana

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Origins & Geography
Ghana has a tropical climate. Accra in the south has an average temperature of 27C (80F). Northern Ghana has higher temperature. Most of Ghana receives over 200 centimetres (80 inches) of rain a year. Northern and Eastern Ghana has [|severe] dry spells from November to March. Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana is not [|geographically], [|ethnically], or in any other way related to modern Ghana. It lies about four hundred miles north-west of modern Ghana. Nobody is sure when Ghana came into being, but some time at the beginning of the first [|millennium] AD, it's thought that a number of clans of the Soninke people, (in modern Senegal) came together under a leader with semi-divine status, called Dinga Cisse.



=History=
 * People from African Kingdoms to the northwest probably settled in what is now Ghana in the 1200's.
 * Portuguese explorers landed on the coast in 1471 and named the area the Gold Coast. Later, the Dutch came to compete with the Portuguese for gold.
 * By 1642, the Dutch had seized all the Portuguese forts, and ended Portuguese control in the Gold Coast.
 * A large slave trade developed in the 1600's, and the Danes and English competed with the Dutch for profits.
 * The slave trade ended during the 1860's, and by 1872, the British had gained control of the Dutch and Danish forts.[[image:Slave.jpg width="238" height="177" align="right"]][[image:Im.jpeg width="327" height="210" align="right"]]