1. Pre-Colonial Era: Gold was central to the rise of powerful empires such as the Ghana Empire (not within modern Ghana but influential to the region), the Mali Empire, and later the Ashanti Kingdom.

Ghana sits atop a wealth of natural treasures – from the gold buried beneath its soil to the cocoa grown on its farms. But as ...

Despite its name, the old Empire ... gold. And the introduction of the camel in the Trans-Saharan trade boosted the amount of goods that could be transported. Most of our knowledge of Ghana ...

and adopted by the Gupta Empire and its successors up to the 6th century. The modern gold dinar is a modern bullion gold coin. Here, we are giving the list of countries that have Dinar as currency ...

Ghana, in February and April this year. The Asante empire was the largest and most powerful in the region in the 18th century and controlled an area that was rich in gold. Many of the gold royal ...