Gold Coast (British Colony)
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The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.
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Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or coast:
“‘She has got rings on every finger,
Round one of them she have got three.
She have gold enough around her middle
To buy Northumberland that belongs to thee.”
—Unknown. Young Beichan (l. 61–64)
“This coast crying out for tragedy like all beautiful places,”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)