Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through March 26, 2006, "West African Gold ... anchored off Ghana’s rocky coast in the late 1400s. The Gold Coast, as it became known, was ...

It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in search of gold. The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron ...

With land ownership came ownership of the natural resources that lay within a territory, and that is how Musa came to be so rich – via salt and gold, mainly. West Africa has always had lots of gold.

Gold deposits were formed within west Africa's craton rocks during a major tectonic event, known as the Eburnean Orogeny, 2.2 ...

At the same time African Nationalists were increasingly ... and diplomat K.B. Asante talk about pre-Independence Ghana The Gold Coast in the 1950's was a country with the highest level of ...