CAPE COAST

town (1984 pop. 57,224), capital of Central Region, S Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea. Known locally as Gna or Oegna, the town is an export port and fishing center. The town originated as an Ashanti trading center. It grew up around European forts built in the 17th cent. The British made it their headquarters in 1664. It was capital of the Gold Coast until superseded by Accra in 1877. Cape Coast is also an educational center.

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The Building of the Cape Cod Canal, 1627-1914
Book by William James Reid; George McKibbin and Son, Inc., 1961
Subjects: Cape Cod Canal (Mass.)
...objective of avoiding the shoals of Cape Cod. However, a route from Boston...and strenuous activity across the Cape. With the coast blockaded and Provincetown being...fleet headquarters, traffic around Cape Cod was practically impossible...
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Cape Verde: Crioulo Colony to Independent Nation
Book by Richard A. Lobban Jr.; Westview Press, 1995
Subjects: Cape Verde--History
...government and slave traders in Cape Verde and the coast were remarkably reluctant to follow...revealed that during his stops in Cape Verde, he slyly changed his ships...and Sierra Leone. 46 The strong Cape Verdean presence on the coast at...
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Cape Cod
Book by Henry Kane Bugbee, Dudley C. Lunt, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Beston; Norton, 1951
Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.)--Description And Travel, Thoreau, Henry David--1817-1862--Journeys--Massachusetts--Cape Cod
...with that "Kialarnes" or Keel-Cape, on which, according to old...about two miles off Rockport, Cape Ann, was probably the Nubble...by experienced navigators to be Cape Elizabeth on the same coast. See Babson History of Gloucester...
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Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870: A Tragedy of Manners
Book by Robert Ross; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Cape Of Good Hope (South Africa)--History--1795-1872, Cape Of Good Hope (South Africa)--History--To 1795, Cape Of Good Hope (South Africa)--Social Conditions, Cape Of Good Hope (South Africa)--Social Life And Customs, Social Status--South Africa--Cape Of Good Hope--History
...As a result, the Chinese in Cape Town, most of whom were in...existed. several persons in Cape Town of great wealth and respectability...ARA VOC 4051. 70 On the west coast of Africa, the Dutch made an...Shell, Kronos, Journal of Cape History , 9, 1984, 64.
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Elijah Cobb, 1768-1848; a Cape Cod Skipper
Book by Ralph D. Paine; Yale University Press, 1925
Subjects: Cape Cod Bay (Mass.)--History, Cobb, Elijah--1768-1848
...ship, showing a teir of guns, streched over for the Barbary coast, I followed her, under easy sail; our convoy , a gun Brig...back; but I heard nothing more, parted from the convoy off cape Trafelgar, proceeded home. I have mentiond a boat that was...
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journal articles on: Cape Coast  - 1184 results

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Challenges Facing Female Distance Learners of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Journal article by Kwame Opong Mensa, Paul Dela Ahiatrogah, Prosper Deku; Gender & Behaviour, Vol. 6, 2008
Subjects: Adults, College students, Colleges & universities, Distance learning, Females, Gender differences, Higher education, Research, Resource allocation, Studies, Teaching, Video teleconferencing
...Facing Female Distance Learners of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana by Kwame Opong Mensa , Paul Dela Ahiatrogah...The Centre for Continuing Education, University of Cape Coast, has for the past 6 years mounted highly patronized...
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From Silence to Silence: the Hidden Story of a Beef Stew in Cape Verde
Journal article by Isabel P. B Fêo Rodrigues; Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 81, 2008
Subjects: Beef, Cape Verde Islands, Famine, Food supply, History, Humanitarian aid, Ideology, Meals, Politics, Tourism
...was through commerce with the Guinea coast (Cape Verde supplied grogue or rum, textiles...taxation) that profits were made in Cape Verde (Brooks 1970, Carreira 1972...refreshments but often recruited starved Cape Verdeans as crewmen who offered their...
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Drowning the Irish: Natural Borders and Class Boundaries in Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod
Journal article by Ryan Schneider; ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), Vol. 22, 2008
Subjects: Boundaries (Geography)--Social aspects, Boundaries--Social aspects, Cape Cod (Essay collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Social class--Analysis, Social classes--Analysis, Thoreau, Henry David--Criticism and interpretation, Thoreau, Henry David--Works
...England. (1) My readings of Cape Cod draw from recent work in...mean that his narratives of the Capes border spaces refer back to...States as a political entity. In Cape Cod, it is the ocean and the hard rocks of the coast that keep the Irish from achieving...nature itself. My explication of Cape Cod also is shaped by criticism...
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Africa Is Coming to the Cape *
Journal article by John Western; The Geographical Review, Vol. 91, 2001
Subjects: Bantu-speaking peoples--Demographic aspects, Cape Town, South Africa--Demographic aspects, Colored people (South Africa)--Demographic aspects, Migration, Internal--Social aspects, Population transfers
...such as the West African coast; fewer came from the Xhosa lands in the Eastern Cape, which although notionally...between the Eastern and Western Capes (SAIRR 1995, 1996). In...Programme found that the Western Cape had the highest "Human Development...come to live in the Western Cape." Not only have the Eastern and Western Capes been different in levels of...
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Edmund Wilson's Cape Cod Landscape
Journal article by Reuel K. Wilson; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 80, 2004
Subjects: Cape Cod Massachusetts, Diaries, Poetry, Wilson, Edmund (1895-1972), Writers, Writing
Edmund Wilsons Cape Cod Landscape by Reuel K. Wilson...made a habit of visiting the Cape Cod shoreline. He was fascinated by the Capes unique mixture of forest, marsh...Provincetown, at the very end of Cape Cod, became his summer base...seascapes on the New Jersey coast near his family home in Redbank...
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The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade
Magazine article by Graham Gendall Norton; History Today, Vol. 56, September 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade (Book)--Book reviews
The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade...Gendall Norton The Grand Slave Emporium Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave...of the hub of British involvement, Cape Coast Castle, centrally positioned...
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Africa's Jewel in the Atlantic: Cape Verde, Comprising a Collection of Small Islands off the Coast of Africa in the Atlantic, Has Been Quietly but Surely Growing in Prosperity and Must Now Be Ranked with Africa's Other Economically Successful States. Neil Ford Reports on What Makes Cape Verde Tick
Magazine article by Neil Ford; African Business, April 2006
Subjects: Cape Verde--Economic aspects, Cape Verde--Political aspects, Economic development--Cape Verde, Economic development--Evaluation
...Africas Jewel in the Atlantic: Cape Verde, Comprising a Collection of Small Islands off the Coast of Africa in the Atlantic...Neil Ford Reports on What Makes Cape Verde Tick. by Neil Ford Botswana...list. GRAPHIC OMITTED One of Cape Verdes biggest economic problems...
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The Humble Queen of Academia: For a Woman Who Sees Challenges in the Line of Duty as Exciting Moments Because They Bring out the Best in Her, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang's Appointment as Vice Chancellor of Ghana's University of Cape Coast (UCC) Could Not Have Come at a Better Time. Stephen Gyasi Jnr Went to Meet the First Woman to Occupy Such a Position in Ghana, and She Doesn't Disappoint
Magazine article by Jr. Stephen Gyasi; New African, December 2008
Subjects: Opoku-Agyemang, Jane Naana--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Opoku-Agyemang, Jane Naana--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women college administrators--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Women college administrators--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women college faculty--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Women college faculty--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women college teachers--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Women college teachers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...Chancellor of Ghanas University of Cape Coast (UCC) Could Not Have Come at a...institution: "To make the University of Cape Coast one of the preferred global...and the world. The University of Cape Coast also runs an international student...
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Dining at the Obama Inn: Affiong L. Affiong, a Nigerian Domiciled in Ghana, Is Intrigued by President Barack Obama's Itinerary When He Visits Ghana on 10 July. "Visit to Cape Coast Castle." C'est Fini? I Thought My Eyes Were Playing Games," She Writes
Magazine article by Affiong L. Affiong; New African, July 2009
Subjects: Obama, Barack--Foreign policy, Obama, Barack--Travel, United States foreign relations--Economic aspects, United States foreign relations--Military aspects, Visits of state
...Visits Ghana on 10 July. "Visit to Cape Coast Castle." Cest Fini? I Thought My...there was only one item. Visit to Cape Coast Castle. Cest fini? I thought...on the agenda for Accra? Visit to Cape Coast Castle. Period. There is more...
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The Teenager with Sickle Cell Disease: Professor F.I.D Konotey-Ahulu, (the Dr Kwegyir Aggrey Distinguished Professor in Human Genetics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana), Continues His Series on Sickle Cell Disease
Magazine article by F.I.D. Konotey-Ahulu; New African, June 2001
Subjects: Pediatric diseases--Physiological aspects, Sickle cell anemia in children--Physiological aspects, Sickle cell anemia--Genetic aspects, Sickle cell anemia--Physiological aspects
...Professor F.I.D Konotey-Ahulu, (the Dr Kwegyir Aggrey Distinguished Professor in Human Genetics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana), Continues His Series on Sickle Cell Disease. by F.I.D. Konotey-Ahulu Reading abstracts published...
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Missing Cargo Ship Found near Cape Verde off Coast of West Africa
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 16, 2009
...Missing Cargo Ship Found near Cape Verde off Coast of West Africa. MOSCOW (AP...Friday near Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa, according...messages as it sailed along the coasts of France and Portugal, but...contact was lost."Cape Verde coast guards said they have located...
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Jessica Setting Course for Cape
Newspaper article; Sunshine Coast Sunday (Maroochydore, Australia), November 29, 2009
Jessica Setting Course for Cape. Byline: Anne-Louise Brown IT has...is counting down the nautical miles to Cape Horn. Buderim schoolgirl Jess, 16...the aEverest of the sailing worlda, Cape Horn, by the first week of January...
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Cool Winds Stir Up the Sea as Jess Nears Cape
Newspaper article; Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore, Australia), January 6, 2010
...Cool Winds Stir Up the Sea as Jess Nears Cape. Byline: Anne-Louise Brown JESSICA...draws closer to South Americas notorious Cape Horn. The 16-year-old Buderim schoolgirl...nautical miles to sail until Jess reaches Cape Horn, Julie said despite the inclement...
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Interbranch Team in Form at Cape Hawke Challenge
Newspaper article; Coffs Coast Advocate (Coffs Harbour, Australia), December 18, 2009
Interbranch Team in Form at Cape Hawke Challenge. MEMBERS of...Permanent Building Society North Coast Inter Branch team can hold their...NSW InterBranch Challenge at Cape Hawke on the weekend. As can...members. Overall the North Coast Branch finished a very credible...
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Cappuccino Coast; Cape Froth: The Lifeguards' Centre Is Engulfed Boy in the Bubble Bath: Tom Woods, 12, Emerges from the Clouds of Foam after Deciding That Surfing Was Not an Option
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 28, 2007
Subjects: Bath products
Cappuccino Coast; Cape Froth: The Lifeguards Centre Is Engulfed Boy in the Bubble Bath: Tom...thelighter it becomes. In this case, storms off the New South Wales Coast andfurther north off Queensland had created a huge disturbance in the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Cape Coast  - 106 results

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Cape Coast
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAPE COAST town (1984 pop. 57,224), capital of Central Region...it their headquarters in 1664. It was capital of the Gold Coast until superseded by Accra in 1877. Cape Coast is also an educational center...
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Hatteras, Cape
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the cape experiences frequent storms that drive...toward its dangerous shallow depths. Cape Hatteras National Seashore (30...undeveloped seashore on the U.S. Atlantic coast. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (built 1870...
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Finisterre, Cape
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FINISTERRE, CAPE finistar Lat. finis terrae =lands end, rocky promontory, extreme NW Spain, on the Atlantic coast of Galicia. Off the cape, the English won two naval battles against the French (1747...
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Cape Buffalo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mammal, Syncerus caffer. The cape, or African, buffalo may reach...extends from Lake Chad south to the Cape of Good Hope and from Senegal, on the Atlantic coast, to the Horn of Africa, on the Indian Ocean. Cape buffalo gather in herds of up...
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Cape Breton Island
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...easternmost point is called Cape Breton. The center of the island...and fishing villages on the coast. In the northeast are steelworks...Trail, a scenic road through Cape Breton Highlands National Park, commemorates the discovery of Cape Breton Island in 1497 by John...
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