Ghana Didn’t Exist Until 1957. These Kingdoms Did.

Ghana didn't exist until 1957, and even its name was borrowed from an empire hundreds of miles away. Before that, this land belonged to gold kingdoms: kings who owned every nugget, chiefs who sit on skins, a people who escaped a tyrant by walking out backwards, a cook who stole a European castle, and a Golden Stool that Britain never found. If you're new: this channel tells the stories of Africa's lost empires. Subscribe and come along. Watch Nigeria Before Nigeria next:    • Nigeria Didn’t Exist Until 1914. These Emp...   0:00 The Golden Stool 1:54 The Borrowed Name 3:41 Gold and Skins 5:33 The Great Escape 6:37 The Castle 8:27 The Cook Who Stole a Castle 10:18 The Stool from the Sky 14:10 A Hundred Years of War 17:21 The Name Sources: al-Bakri via the Ghana Empire entry; The Conversation (Asameni and the keys of Christiansborg); histories of the War of the Golden Stool, Elmina, Bono, Dagbon, the Ewe exodus from Notsie, the Fante Confederation and the Anglo-Asante wars. Legends and quotes are presented as tradition. Which part of this story is your people's? Akan, Ga, Ewe, Dagomba, Fante, Gonja? Tell me below. #Ghana #AfricanHistory #GhanaBeforeGhana