Were the american colonists justified in waging war and breaking away from britain?

Yes, because the British were highly taxing them for the American Indian war, a war that they fought. Also the British were taxing regular things like tea, paper, clothes, and many other things.

Ghana, first of the great medieval trading empires of western africa (fl. 7th–13th century). it was situated between the sahara and the headwaters of the sénégal and niger rivers, in an area that now comprises southeastern mauritania and part of mali.