During WWII and for a long time hence, Takoradi was the most famous town in Britain's settlement of the Gold Coast. It was solely during the 1950s, zeroing in on independence, that people in the UK began to hear more about the capital, of the new region of Ghana, Accra. For quite a while, Takoradi, held up in the memory of various English servicemen who were situated there, and the various relatives and sidekicks who heard their records and read their books. Among that developing age, Takoradi stays the one town that is by and large promptly connected with the old Gold Coast and the new Ghana.

Consistently referred to in the wartime despatches as Takoradi, the town is alluded to in Ghana as the twin-city of Takoradi/Secondi, the capital of the Western Locale. During WWII, Takoradi was the super significant water port in the Gold Coast. A critical armed force establishment was spread out for the get-together of fighting plane for use by the Majestic Flying corps (RAF) in Egypt and Libya. The plane were shipped in cases to Takoradi where they were gathered and flown on to the war zone in north-east Africa. Hence, opportunity in 1957 gave Ghana a huge current port and a profoundly grounded air base.

Secondi similarly obtained a critical asset from the common time frame. An enormous present day planning studio had been spread out with the name of 'Region,' to give fix and backing organizations to Ghana's rail lines. Conversed with in 1971, the chief happily communicated that at whatever point called upon to do thusly, Region could manufacture a complete steam train. Then, he added tragically, this wouldn't be required in light of the fact that all new trains were right now energized by diesel engines. These were delivered off Germany for fix, at this point he would have jumped at the chance to be outfitted with the significant new equipment to enable the work to be done in Ghana.

After opportunity one might have expected Takoradi/Secondi to transform into the significant current and collecting center in ghana. This didn't happen on the scale expected, considering the way that the principal state head and president, Kwame Nkrumah, required the port of area for imports to be tracked down nearer to the seat of government in Accra. The advancement of the new port of Tema, 30 kilometers east of Accra, prevented Takoradi from getting by far most of the import trade as well as the ware of Ghana's most noteworthy new exchange laborer, cocoa. Takoradi was left with the ware of wood: logs and lumber, and the bauxite mined at Awaso in the Western Region which was shipped off the UK for the production of aluminum. For quite a while after opportunity, Takoradi harbor had a to some degree ruined and ignored appearance.

As a cutting edge place, Takoradi/Secondi waited quite far behind Ghana's enormous three: Accra, Kumasi and Tema and its general population stayed more humble than these three metropolitan networks and Tamale in the Northern Region. A critical piece of the Western Region remained thickly forested, though the loggers were encroaching rapidly from the east and the north; exchanges were irksome with no huge roads or rail courses penetrating into within. Takoradi reflected the state of its region, as one of Ghana's less populated and less made. All through the last piece of the twentieth 100 years, this legend of WWII remained more regarded in London than in Accra, yet it is fulfilling to record that Takoradi/Secondi's driving spot in Ghana's life has begun to be restored in the new thousand years.