Ghana

Ghana is a west African nation located at almost the exact geographical center of the earth's surface (the intersection of the Equator, which is a real thing, and the Prime Meridian, which is an arbitrary line originating in London because the British are way, way up their own asses). Modern-day Ghana was governed by the Ashanti dynasty until the 15th century, when the Portuguese heard a rumor that there was gold there. Needless to say, the next 500 years or so were basically a nonstop hit parade of white people popping in armed to the teeth to get their hands on as many shiny rocks as they could. Ghana later became a British colony but, during the 20th century, a few dozen years of back-and-forth wholesale slaughter eventually left the Brits "just so bloody embarrassed" that they relinquished control of the country in 1957. You know. That old chestnut.

One famous Ghanaian is Kofi Annan, who has met Brad Pitt.