the hill

The Hill

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April 24th 2008
The Hill (Stanley Baker) The Hill in this film was an instrument of torture used in the main by a sadistic Sergeant in the British Armed Forces. He had it constructed out of sand. If he had lived in Cape Coast he could have had his pick of many naturally formed such instruments. As it turned out our permanent (or not as the case may be) home for the next two years provided us with our very own ... read more

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Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the ... ... read more