When: March 6, 1957
Kwame Nkrumah, a renowned pan-Africanist, leads Ghana to independence as Britain’s first African colony to obtain majority-rule independence. Ghana stood, as Nkrumah stated, as proof that “Africans conduct their own affairs with efficiency and tolerance and through the exercise of democracy. We must set an example to all Africa.”
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