Present Day Ghana In The Nineteenth Century

Europeans desire and self-determination to control Africa left a long-lasting legacy for many regions of present-day Africa. Europeans ultimate goal of was to better themselves, but once they arrived in Africa, new ideologies arose. Colonialism tremendously affected language, politics, and religion throughout the continent. During colonialism, the many policies that were set in stone by the Europeans would change the framework of Africa. The Gold Coast which is now present-day Ghana was under the rule of the British in West Africa. The ideologies of the British left a impetus mark on Ghana that would follow this country to what it is today. Ghana's transition through religion, politics, and language from colonial times to postcolonial times

Islam was practiced in the fifteenth century under the ancient kingdoms of Ghana but with the arrival of Europeans the shift in religion changed. The traditional society of Ghana was run in three different ways and church and state were not separate. The first would be a community driven by kings and queens, next would be tribal societies based on traditions of kinship and religious dogmas, and last would be the state of archaic State system that would listen to a Chief . The Chief was seen as the priest with the closest connection to all of the Gods. Before the Europeans arrived in Africa, many Africans believed in multiple gods, evil and the existence that they needed to follow the orders of their ancestors to reach the eternal life. When the Europeans arrived, the practice of traditional African religion shifted the authority of the chiefs to now the introduction of Christianity by the Europeans. The Christian missionaries main goal in Ghana was to help civilize the people. The Africans called Christianity the "White Man's Fashion" because they noticed that people who were Christian were all educated and the fact that the Europeans had so much control over the Africans they felt it was a religion that focused on the superiority over

The Gold Coast was the most advanced nation politically because the country had learned an abundance of government practices by the British that helped independence. The Gold Coast formed the United Gold Coast Convention in 1947 to discuss the end of colonial rule in Africa. The form of this political party eventually became the Convention People's Party led by one of the first nationalists of Africa Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumah believed in the Pan Africanism movement that was run by educated African as an anti-colonial movement. Nkrumah ran on the platform "self-government now" and determined to gain his countries independence by making their constitution based on their own beliefs. Nkrumah wanted his point to get across to the British by holding protest and boycotts. In 1957, the Gold Coast had gained its independence from colonial rule and changed their name to