Northern Territories of the Gold Coast information
British protectorate in west Africa between 1901 and 1957
Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
1902[1]–1957
Flag of the United Kingdom
Coat of arms
Anthem: God Save the King (1902–1952) God Save the Queen (1952–1957)
Map of the Gold Coast Colony, the Ashanti Colony, the Northern Territories and the mandate territory of British Togoland
Capital
Gambaga
Common languages
English (official), Dagbani (official)
Government
Protectorate
Monarch
Chief Commisoner
• 1897-1899
Henry Ponting Northcott
• 1954-1957
Sydney MacDonald-Smith
History
• Established
1 January 1902[1]
• Annexed to form part of Her Majesty’s dominions as part of Ghana
6 March 1957
Currency
Gold Coast ackey British West African pound
Succeeded by
Ghana (dominion)
Today part of
Ghana
The Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, commonly known as the Northern Territories, was a British protectorate in Africa from 1901 until 1957.[2] The protectorate was administered by the Governor of the Gold Coast under a Chief Commissioner residing at Gambaga.[3]: 79 A number of treaties were concluded in the name of Her Britannic Majesty with the Chiefs of Bona, Dagarti, Wa and Mamprusi at Gambaga.[3]: 77 These treaties were made in 1896.[4] Under the treaties, the Chiefs agreed not to conclude treaties with any other Power or to cede territory or to accept protectorates without the consent of Her Britannic Majesty.[3]: 77 The Northern Territories were constituted as a district in 1897.[3]: 77 The Northern Territories were formally established as a protectorate in 1901 under the Northern Territories Order in Council 1901 made on 26 September 1901.[4] The Northern Territories remained a protectorate until the Ghana Independence Act 1957 annexed the Northern Territories by providing that the territories included immediately before 6 March 1957 in the Gold Coast should, as from that day, form part of Her Majesty's dominions by the name of Ghana.[4]
^Northern Territories Order in Council, 1901 made on 26 September 1901, effective 1 January 1902
^’The Location of Administrative Capitals in Ashanti, Ghana, 1896-1911’ by R. B. Bening in The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2 (1979)
^ abcdHertslet, E. The Map of Africa by Treaty (Map).
^ abcRoberts-Wray, Kenneth (1966). Commonwealth and Colonial Law. London: Stevens. p. 789.
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