Decolonization of Africa · TURNING POINT ·
Independence of Ghana (1957)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “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.”
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- Nkrumah and Ghana’s independence (chapter 3 of Decolonization of Africa)
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- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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