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Ghanaians campaign for independence from British rule, 1949-1951

Country
Ghana
Time period
November 20, 1949 to February, 1951
Classification
Change
Cluster
Democracy
National/Ethnic Identity
Total points
8 out of 10 points
Name of researcher, and date dd/mm/yyyy
Adriana Popa, 07/11/2010

Ghana was the first African country south of the Sahara to gain its independence. The process aimed at African representation had begun as early as the 1920s and under the post-World War II Constitution African parties were allowed to contest elections. But the British tended to favor cooperation with conservative African chiefs and a small intellectual elite, who no longer represented the people as a whole.