Where are the Pepper, Ivory, Gold and Slave Coast of Africa
European Cash Coasts of Africa
Foreign overseas traders and exporters solely according to the business and trade economies roughly divided Africa into four coasts; Pepper Coast, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, and the Slave Coast.

Where are the Pepper, Ivory, Gold and Slave Coast of Africa
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The Berlin Conference was not the start of the "Scramble for Africa," history shows that the first areas to be settled in the African regions were those along the shoreline.
French and Portuguese explorers in the early 16th century divided the countries of the west coast Africa into four coasts according to the trade economy, the Ivory Coast, Grain Coast or Pepper Coast, Gold Coast, and Slave Coast.
Ivory Coast
The French named the CĂ´te d'Ivoire literally means Ivory Coast. CĂ´te d'Ivoire was unofficially known as Costa do Marfim by the Portuguese, cĂ´te des dents or the teeth coast and the Ivory Coast reflecting the trade in ivory.
Grain Coast
The Grain Coast, Malaguetta Coast or Pepper Coast is the former name of a part of the Atlantic coast that is roughly identical with the coast of modern Liberia.
Gold Coast
The Gold Coast was the former unofficial name for present-day Ghana in West Africa. The Gold Coast is so-called because it was an important source of gold for the British, Portuguese, and Dutch traders.
Slave Coast
The Slave Coast is a historical name formerly used for parts of coastal West Africa from present-day Nigeria, Togo, and along the Bight of Benin. The Slave Coast was a major source of African slaves during the transatlantic slave trade from the16th to 19th century largely by the British, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Berlin Conference Outcome and Effects on Africa
The Berlin Conference did not initiate European colonization of Africa. Following the close of the conference, European powers expanded their claims in Africa such that by 1900, European states had claimed nearly 90 percent of African territory.
The Berlin Conference is also known as the Congo Conference meet Nov. 15, 1884, to Feb. 26, 1885 for a series of negotiations Berlin Germany. The major European nations met to decide to carve up Africa based on their needs not knowing or caring the trauma they were inflicting
on the people of Africa.
Africa suffered and is still suffering from
ethnic division. Numerous tribes were cut off from their relatives in a neighboring country. Similarly, numerous Africans
were forcefully separated from fellow Africans by the way of slavery. The coming together of Africa is a healing process from
which Africans will benefit, relatives and long separated ethnic groups will be united.

Did you know?
The Gold Coast, Ghana, in the 1950s was a country with the highest level of education in the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Gold Coast, Ghana, in the 1950s was a country with the highest level of education in the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa.
African people are extremely diverse within each African country. Made up of numerous tribes and people of many religious, social and ethnic groups within the geographical boundaries of the African country African borders are at times arbitrary. French and Portuguese explorers in the early 16th century divided the countries of the west coast Africa into four coasts according to the trade economy, the Ivory Coast, Grain Coast or Pepper Coast, Gold Coast, and Slave Coast.
Africa’s New Mineral Coast
Conflict-Minerals
Mined in Africa
Conflict-minerals
have fueled and continue to help fund and sustain armed violence in Africa.
Companies that are required to file a Conflict-Minerals Report must exercise
due diligence on the source and chain of custody of their conflict minerals.
Conflict-Minerals
funding war in Africa
In 2010, Congress
passed the Dodd-Frank Act, which directs the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) to issue rules requiring certain companies to disclose their
use of conflict minerals if those minerals are “necessary to the functionality
or production of a product” manufactured by those companies. Under the Act,
those minerals include tantalum, tin, gold or tungsten.
Congress enacted
Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act because of concerns that the exploitation
and trade of conflict minerals by Militia and corrupt businesspersons is
helping to finance conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its
neighbors by contributing to war and human misery of millions.
Conflict Mineral as
defined in the Dodd-Frank Act, Section 1502(e)(4) means: (A)
columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, gold, wolframite, or their
derivatives; or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the
Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo or an adjoining country.
Under Section 1502,
a company that uses conflict minerals is required to conduct a reasonable
country of origin inquiry that must be performed in good faith and be
reasonably designed to determine whether any of its minerals originated in the
covered countries or are from scrap or recycled sources.
Companies that are
required to file a Conflict Minerals Report must exercise due diligence on the
source and chain of custody of their conflict minerals.
Responsible Sourcing
of 3TG
According to Apple's
2015 Conflict Minerals Report released in March 2016, Apple has all smelters and
refiners in Apple’s supply chain participating in a Third Party Audit program.
Third-Party Audits
typically involve an examination of individual purchasing transactions on a
sample, basis to assess the reasonableness and effectiveness of conflict
mineral sourcing practices at the particular smelter or refiner. Apple
principally supports the work of the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative or CFSI.
Apple states in
2016,” it focused its attention to two key areas: enhancing due diligence in
the gold supply chain and helping improve local incident reporting and issue
resolution.
Apple plans to
continue to review in detail credible reports of incidents in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries that may potentially connect to
Apple’s supply chain and confirm the transparent reporting and resolution of
any incidents related to armed groups where these incidents may reasonably relate
to its supply chain.”
Additionally, Apple
stated it intends to further its efforts to drive smelters and refiners to
comply with Third-Party Audits, and Apple will continue to remove from its
supply chain those smelters or refiners that do not comply, the ultimate
objective is protecting human rights in the African Region.
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