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Turning point · The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
Accra — Ghana is free
6 Mar 1957 — At midnight Kwame Nkrumah proclaims Ghana, the first sub-Saharan colony to throw off European rule: “Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.”
This is one scene of Chapter 3 — Ghana — The Model in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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