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The Ghana Empire
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The Ghana Empire at its greatest extent
When the Gold Coast in 1957 became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to regain its independence from colonial rule, it was renamed in honor of the long-gone empire from which the ancestors to the Akan people of modern-day Ghana are thought to have migrated.
At its peak, the Ghana Empire spanned portions of modern-day southeastern Mauritania, western Mali, and eastern Senegal.
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