On Ghana's gold, "galamsey" miners and government action ...
On Ghana's gold, "galamsey" miners and government action. Problematically, there's also a lot of "galamsey." Mining, of course, is much older than modern Ghana. Long before the colonial powers arrived and named this stretch of West African shoreline the Gold Coast, the powerful and sophisticated Ashanti Empire traded the gold mined in their vast territory to traders from various African states.
