The former  was the result of conquest in the Yaa Asantewa War of 1900-01 and the latter being the conclusion of Treaties with the help of the Fante Surveyor George Ekem Ferguson.  Trans-Volta Togoland seized from Germany at the end of World War I became an adjunct of the Gold Coast Colony with the approval of the League of Nations in July 1921.  This completed the territorial definition of modern Ghana and also the beginning of colonial rule property defined.

British colonialism in the Gold Coast was all embracing; it involved economic, social and political infrastructural development.  Economically, cash crop farming  and the mining boom of the last decade of the 19th century promised great economic opportunities.  In 1890 and 1901 palm oil and palm kernels constituted 44% and 48% respectively of export revenue.  From a modest export of 80 lbs. of cocoa beans worth £4 in 1891, the Gold Coast became the world’s number one producer of cocoa in 1911 with an output of 88.9 million lbs. worth £6 million.  In that year, cocoa accounted for 46% of Gold Coast’s total value of exports.