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MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · March 6

THE DAY IN HISTORY · MARCH 6

March 6 in history

1957 — 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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