Accra

Accra, since 1875 capital of the (British) Gold Coast Colony, and after Cape Coast Castle, the most important town on the coast, lies slightly to the W. of the long, of Greenwich. It is a healthy place, much attention being paid to the drainage and water-supply, and has considerable export trade in palm-oil, ivory, gold dust, india-rubber, monkey skins, gum copal, and camwood. The town has telegraphic communication with England, the Niger, and the French and Portuguese settlements to the south. Pop. about 17,000.