It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in search of gold. The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron ...

Glassell Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Thomas Bowdich, a British envoy, was one of the first Europeans to venture into the interior of Africa’s fabled Gold Coast. Entering the town of ...

“They were the biggest seas ever seen in European history on the Gold Coast,’’ he said. Callaghan said he and Cunningham had attempted to reach the pair earlier, with Cunningham taking out a ...