'dignity of Labour' for African Leaders : The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School on the Gold Coast free download pdf. 'DIGNITY OF LABOUR' FOR AFRICAN LEADERS: The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School on the Gold Coast From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. Ghana - Society. GHANA, FORMERLY THE BRITISH COLONY of the Gold Coast, lies on the West African coast, just north of the equator. Its warm, humid climate is typical of the tropics. Ghana covers an area of approximately 239,000 square kilometers, much of it drained the Volta River system. Ghana (/ n / ()), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.Spanning a land mass of 238,535 km