Ghanaians in the United Kingdom (also Ghanaian British or British Ghanaian) is a term that refers to Ghanaian immigrants to the United Kingdom and their descendants. They are one of the largest Black African groups in the country.
Although modern Ghana gained independence in 1957 (and was the first Black African country to do so from the British), people from that region have been arriving and living in Britain since at least the mid–16th century...
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Ghanaians in the United Kingdom (also Ghanaian British or British Ghanaian) is a term that refers to Ghanaian immigrants to the United Kingdom and their descendants. They are one of the largest Black African groups in the country.
Although modern Ghana gained independence in 1957 (and was the first Black African country to do so from the British), people from that region have been arriving and living in Britain since at least the mid–16th century. At that time there were many Africans living and working in London, free rather than enslaved people, some of whom were based at the royal court. Even Shakespeare, it is rumoured, sought the company of an African lady, Lucy Morgan.
In 1555 John Lok, a London merchant and Alderman, brought five Africans from the town of Sharma, in what is today Ghana, to London to be trained as interpreters in order to assist England’s trade with the western coast of Africa.
From that time onwards economic links were established between West Africa and...
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