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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