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Ghana after 50 years

It was the first country in Africa where Europeans arrived to trade, in gold and slaves, and 50 years ago it became the first black African nation in the sub Sahara to become independent. Since then it has had a history full of ideals and tyranny, promise and despair. In that way Ghana is Africa in microcosm. A BBC production.

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