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Bring us the head of King Badu Bonsu, said Ghana – and the Dutch said yes
It had been there since its arrival in the late 1830s from what was then called the Dutch Gold Coast and is today Ghana. The head ... my novel about an Ahanta boy brought to Holland in 1837 ...
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This Ahanta king's head was preserved in a jar at a Dutch laboratory
It had been there since its arrival in the late 1830s from what was then called the Dutch Gold Coast and is today Ghana. Mr Japin ... novel about an Ahanta boy brought to Holland in 1838, and ...
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'First English slave fort in Africa' uncovered on Ghana's coast
The exact location of what is thought to be the first English slave fort in Africa may have been found - the BBC has been hearing about the significance of the discovery in Ghana. Taking care ...
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The freed Ghanaian slave who helped translate the Bible from Dutch to Fanti
In 1717, Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein was born in the Gold Coast, with the exact place ... master for about two years in the Dutch Fort of Elmina in Ghana prior to leaving for Holland in ...