With the completion of Brexit, both countries signed the Interim Trade Partnership Agreement on 2 March 2020, worth around £1.2 billion.

[2] Early contact with the area known today as Ghana began in 1555 when John Lok brought back five Ghanaians to encourage trade relations with Western Africa.

Disputes between the Fante and Ashanti often lead to European involvement in local disputes, the first of which began in 1806 when the Ashanti–Fante War, also known as the Ghana War, broke out with the Ashanti being victorious, capturing the Assin chief Kwadwo Otibu who was charged with harbouring Oyoko grave robbers on charges by the Asantehene Osei Bonsu.

Hope Smith, the governor of Cape Coast, disowned the treaty, as betraying the Fante interests under British protection.

Under Smiths advice, from 1821 to 1824 with the dissolution of ACoM the British in the Gold Coast began taking direct control of forts and dropped Dupuis' treaty, once more supporting the Fante.

Therefore, at the King's request, the Sergeant was captured and left in prison in Kumasi until 1 February 1823, when again at the behest of the King, killed the Sergeant with orders 'to send the jawbone, skull, and one of the arms ... to [Osei]' by the following day from Anomabu, such actions being considered a declaration of war by the British.

Kwaku Dua I encouraged trade with MacClean's administration, but by 1852 disputes between the Ashanti and Fante began anew.

[3] A large number of Yoruba people in this period had resettled in the British colony of Sierra Leone, which was established to home Africans who had escaped the slave trade.

In 1838 a number of Egba people returned with a knowledge of English and Christianity, helping to spread the Anglican and particularly Methodist presence in the Gold Coast.

The export of West Africans to the Americas had decreased with the banning of slavery in Brazil in 1850 and the bombardment by the British of Lagos in an anti-slave raid.

Garnet Wolseley commanded an expedition to the Ashanti, making all his arrangements at the Gold Coast before the arrival of the troops in January 1874, completing the campaign with remarkable speed, returning to Britain in under two months.

They advanced and after five days' fighting, ending with the Battle of Ordashu, entered the capital Kumasi, which Wolsely ordered be burned.

The Ashanti then signed the Treaty of Fomena in July 1874 marking the end of the war and human sacrifice under Kofi Karikari's rule.

The remaining Ashanti court, including Yaa Asantewaa not exiled to the Seychelles had mounted the offensive against the British and Fanti troops resident at the Kumasi Fort, but were defeated.

The Ashanti territories became part of the Gold Coast colony on 1 January 1902, on the condition that the Golden Stool would not be violated by British or other non-Akan foreigners.

In September the British sent flying columns out to visit neighbouring peoples who had supported the rebellion, resulting in more fighting.

British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was very supportive of the idea of African independence anyway (which at the time was considered controversial within his party) and he agreed.

Adding to this, a higher portion of people in the Gold Coast were literate than was the case in any other European colony in Africa, with Sierra Leone being a close second.

President John Kufuor had a strong relationship with the United Kingdom and was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (2006)[11] British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ghanaian President John Kufuor worked closely together on a number of issues including issues of peace and stability in Liberia and Sierra Leone as well as how to effectively boost foreign aid to Africa and economic development within Africa.

[18] The Interim Trade Partnership Agreement signed between the United Kingdom and Ghana on 2 March 2020 is worth around £1.2 billion.