Ghana, whether an ancient kingdom or a centrally governed nation in West Africa, has been involved in the fabric of economic development and trade in sub-Saharan Africa for a thousand years years (Berry, 1994, p.63). Known for its abundance of gold, the nation of Ghana, presented as "the Gold Coast" by European traders (Berry, 1994, p. 63), felt the political and economic consequences of the world's increasingly less isolated over the last six centuries. due to growing European power. In this essay, by examining the current state of Ghana and drawing on historical exchanges between Europeans and Ghanaians, I intend to reveal the ramifications of British colonialism and globalization on the political and economic infrastructure from Ghana. After colonization, Ghana resorted to a form of decentralized governance such as the Akan political system, in which towns were autonomous and leadership was vested in local traditional leaders, namely chiefs, elders and militia leaders. civil (Odotei, 2008). The framework of the indigenous Akan political system also involved facets of democracy through the consultative process of electing political officials and the administration of each chief of his town, of which the Akan symbols tumi te se kosua and kurontire ne akwamu provide insight (Assanful, 2013). The symbol tumi te se kosua, which translates to "power is like an egg", describes the fragility of political power if it is not exercised fairly or if it does not include accountability, because if power “is held too tightly, it can break, if held too tightly.” loosely, it could fall and break” (Assanful, 2013, p. 202). The kurontire ne akwamu symbol, derived from a saying "one person does not rule a nation", draws...... middle of paper ...... as introduced to the Gold Coast in 1878 by a blacksmith named Tetteh Quarshie (Ludlow, 2012, p. 7). After the Dutch withdrew their presence from the Gold Coast entirely in 1872, tensions between the Asante kingdom and the British began to increase. The Asante, who viewed the Dutch as a source of economic support, viewed the recent absence of the Dutch and the growing British presence along the West African coast as a threat to their trade access (Berry, 1994, p. 7) . The Asante then orchestrated an invasion of the coast in 1873, which was quickly extinguished by British military forces. After their defeat by the British in 1874, the Asante were forced to abandon their southern territories along the coast to the European empire, and the region soon became a British crown colony with Accra rather than Cape Coast as the new colonial capital (Berry, 1994). ,p. 8).