Ghana is located in West Africa and was formed from the merger of the British colony Gold Coast and the British Togoland trust territory by a UN sponsored plebiscite. Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence in 1957 under the leadership of . Kwame Nkrumah. He was the 1st African head of state in the Pan-African Movement, which was an idea he appropriated during his studies at Lincoln University in the United States, find out more about Ghana and it's history...