British West Africa
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British West Africa was the collective name for British settlements in West Africa during the colonial period, either in the general geographical sense or the formal colonial administrative entity. Br
Otoo Ababio II., Omanhene of Abura, being presented to Prince of Wales, Accra, Gold Coast, 1925
The Gambia Colony and Protectorate was the British colonial administration of The Gambia from 1821 to 1965, part of the British Empire in the New Imperialism era. The colony was the immediate area sur
British West Africa
…governor-general), an office vested in the governor of Sierra Leone based in Freetown. The other colonies originally included in the jurisdiction were the Gambia, the British Gold Coast (modern Ghana), as well as the western, eastern, and northern parts of modern Nigeria. British West Africa's present makeup…
Meeting of the Gambia Constitutional Conference in London, July 1961.