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:
“How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Beyond this island bound
By a thin sea of flesh
And a bone coast ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)