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1. The History Behind Guinea's Latest Coup.

Author

French, Howard W.

Subjects
INDEPENDENCE Day (Ghana), FRENCH Resistance, 1940-1945, CONTINENTALISM
Abstract

The article reports that Ghana's former President Kwame Nkrumah, who led his country to independence from Britain in 1957, argued on route to Africa's liberation, in the unification of its former colonies in a continental nation that will give it the geographical scale and wealth in resources. Topics include stories of the continent's first generation of post independence leaders; and Samori Toure, the leader of a 19th-century Islamic state whose heroic armed resistance against the French.

Published
2021

2. Pan Africanism and Civil Religious Performance: Kwame Nkrumah and the Independence of Ghana.

Author

Mensah, Eric Opoku

Subjects
*INDEPENDENCE Day (Ghana), *PAN-Africanism, *CIVIL religion, *DECOLONIZATION, *IMPERIALISM
Abstract

Kwame Nkrumah's Independence declaration speech was widely seen as a key rhetorical moment in the fight towards decolonization in Africa. The purpose of this essay is to unravel reasons why the speech was not only quintessential to Ghana's transition into an independent nation, but also crucial to Africa's long journey towards freedom from Western imperialism. Hence, it is argued that the significance of Nkrumah's rhetorical invention is in the symbolic birth of a new nation, providing rhetorical force to the Pan Africa agenda, and in performing the role of a high priest in a civil religious ceremony with citizens of a new nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016

4. Stable Anniversary.

Subjects
INDEPENDENCE Day (Ghana), INTERNATIONAL relations
Published
1958

5. Ghana Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of Independence

Subjects
Independence Day (Ghana), Autonomy -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Ghana -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=7722412 RENEE MONTAGNE" IdRef="1" Descriptor="Host:Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African nation to win independence, is celebrating its 50th anniversary today. The party began last […]

Published
2007

6. Ghana celebrates! ... 55 years of independence is a longtime in politics: on 6 March 2012, Ghana will celebrate 55 years of independence. It will be a memorable occasion as the country was the first south of the Sahara to reach independence, thereby opening the floodgates for total African liberation. Stephen Gyasi Jnr traces the journey so far and how the country is likely to fare, especially in this election year

Author

Jnr, Stephen Gyasi

Subjects
Ghana -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Independence Day (Ghana), Ex-prime ministers -- Appreciation -- Aims and objectives, General interest, Government, Business, international
Abstract

When 55 years ago, on 6 March 1957, the then Prime Minister of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, stood at the Old Polo Grounds in Accra and uttered the memorable words, 'Fellow [...]

Published
2012

7. Black Facts.

Subjects
INDEPENDENCE Day (Ghana), GOVERNMENT agencies, EMPLOYMENT discrimination, AFRICAN American history
Abstract

The article presents chronological facts about African Americans. Outlined is the independence of Ghana from the white colonial rule, making it the first colony controlled by the British government in 1957. The death of former Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica on March 7, 1997 is remembered. New York's establishment of the Fair Employment Practices Commission on March 12, 1945 is noted.

Published
2014

8. Africa was a point of pride for Martin Luther King Jr.

Author

Perez, Rush

Subjects
APARTHEID, INDEPENDENCE Day (Ghana)
Abstract

The article focuses on the speech by African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on December 10, 1965, regarding the Apartheid regime of South Africa and the freedom of the country and mentions the Independence Day celebration of Ghana in 1963 as a new country.

Published
2014

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