hello everyone and aquaba too mister
[Music]
this is africa and here is ghana now
let's have a closer look shall we the
early history of ghana is a big blur the
people were mostly simple fishermen
and therefore left little traces of
themselves for us to dig up and ponder
over but this was not gonna continue
around the 11th century the dagomba
people
founded a warrior kingdom in the north
and the akan people founded the bono
state and no
it's not named after the singer from u2
but he probably thinks it is now there's
a lot of gold in ghana and by the 1400s
the akan people were very much in
control of it and they used it to trade
with various european powers for
centuries thus this region became known
as the gold coast
further inland in the mid 1600s one akan
clan began
organizing itself to take top dog status
and eventually did it became the asante
empire one of the most powerful and
influential of all african kingdoms
ruled by a monarch seated on a sacred
stool believed to house the spirit of
the asante people
this empire of ancestor venerating drum
messaging and yam growing was also one
of war
festival skillfully made art and
noteworthy architecture now the british
outlasted and outbought the other
european powers in the region and when
the asante started invading the gold
coast to expand their territory
trade was disrupted and the british
could not have that and it was war
and war and war and war and war some
more one punitive british raid resulted
in burning the assante capital
to the ground in 1874 but economic
interests could not be secure until the
asante were subdued and though the
asante fought valiantly and even won
some victories they were no match for
planet earth's number one superpower and
their lands ended up absorbed into the
british empire meanwhile british values
were being introduced which meant
christianity
railways and no more human sacrifice
imported cacao trees were planted and
became a bulwark of the economy and it
wasn't long before much of the world
relied on ghana for its chocolate
related needs this accumulation of
wealth went to further developing the
nation and the people of ghana began to
yearn more and more to run it themselves
and nationalist movements began forming
with this aim in mind this aim was
realized in 1957 when ghana became the
first african nation to achieve
independence from a colonial power in
1960 it became a republic with socialist
kwame ngr as first president he wanted
ghana to be strong and modern and pushed
for reforms in education
and industry and managed to wriggle his
way into gaining dictatorial powers
things didn't go as planned however and
his regime was toppled in 1966
the country was heavily in debt and
things were pretty bad until mr jerry
rawlings took power and oversaw
free market economic measures more
privatization and less government
spending which helped ghana get back on
its feet in 2001 the ghanaian u.n
secretary-general kofi annan won the
nobel peace prize and while things
slipped a little back home nana akufado
who won the 2016 election vowed to both
improve the economy and root out
corruption ghana today has a medium
level of human development and is set to
improve further and i'm gonna wish them
the best of luck but as for me it's bye
for now bye
