🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Begho (Brong-Ahafo) – Akan Gold Entrepôt
Late Iron Age / Akan · Akan (Brong) / Wangara / Kramo
Iron-curtain city of 10,000+ (11th–18th c) at Akan–Niger gold, kola, cloth and Saharan salt crossroads.
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🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Late Iron Age / Akan · Akan (Brong) / Wangara / Kramo
Iron-curtain city of 10,000+ (11th–18th c) at Akan–Niger gold, kola, cloth and Saharan salt crossroads.