Netherlands-Ghana Relations
Diplomatic, trade, and cultural relations between the Netherlands and Ghana
Ghanaian Communities in the Netherlands Today
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From the 1980s onwards Ghanaians settled in Amsterdam Zuidoost and Rotterdam, building churches, associations and busine......
Euro-African Families of Elmina
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The Vroom, Bartels, Nieser and Ulzen families and others born of Dutch-Akan unions became the brokers, interpreters and......
The Dutch–Asante Treaty of 1837 and the Recruitment Agreement
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Major-General Jan Verveer travelled to Kumasi to negotiate soldiers for the Dutch East Indies. The agreement he reached......
Dutch Abolition and Its Consequences on the Gold Coast
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The Netherlands banned the slave trade in 1814 and abolished slavery in its colonies in 1863. On the Gold Coast this for......
Fort Batenstein at Butri and the Lesser Dutch Forts
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Beyond Elmina the Dutch Gold Coast was a chain of small stations at Butri, Shama, Axim, Sekondi and Senya Beraku. Their......
Fort Crèvecoeur and the Dutch Presence at Accra
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Built in 1649 and later renamed Ussher Fort, the Dutch post at Accra stood between a Danish and an English fort on the s......
Fort Nassau at Mouri: The First Dutch Foothold
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Built in 1612 on a headland east of Cape Coast, Fort Nassau was the first permanent Dutch fortification in West Africa a......
The Elmina Note: A Disputed Document at the Heart of Empire
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A single piece of paper recorded a payment made by the Dutch at Elmina. To Kumasi it proved Asante ownership of the grou......
The Anglo-Dutch Treaties of 1870–71 and the Sale of Elmina
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The Netherlands ended two and a half centuries on the Gold Coast by handing its forts to Britain. The 1867 exchange, the......
The Belanda Hitam: Gold Coast Recruits in the Dutch East Indies Army
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Between 1831 and 1872 the Netherlands recruited some three thousand West African men at Elmina for its colonial army in......
Contemporary Ghana-Netherlands Relations: Diplomacy, Trade, and Cultural Exchange
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Five centuries after the first Dutch traders arrived on the Gold Coast, Ghana and the Netherlands maintain a multifacete......
The Repatriation Movement: Asante Artifacts in Dutch Museums
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Since the 1990s a growing international movement has demanded the return of cultural objects taken from Africa during th......