Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on March 6 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
Accra was a small Ga ethnic-group coastal village until the 1877 British colonial decision to make it the new capital of the Gold Coast colony (replacing Cape Coast as the colonial capital); the city grew rapidly under British colonial administration. Ghana became the first…
under Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) is one of the post-colonial African industrialization stories and the main Ghanaian-industrialization founding event — and Ashaiman's existence is significantly a direct result of the Tema project.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →