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The United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) was an early nationalist movement with the aim of self-government " in the shortest possible time" founded in August 1947 by educated Africans such as J.B. Danquah, A.G. Grant, R.A. Awoonor-Williams, Edward Akufo Addo (all lawyers except for Grant, who was a wealthy businessman), and others, the leadership of the organisation called for the replacement ...
Kwame Nkrumah – first prime minister and first president of Ghana [4] [5] Ako Adjei – founding member of the UGCC [6] Edward Akufo-Addo – founding member of the UGCC and subsequently chief justice and president of Ghana [7] Joseph Boakye Danquah – founding member of the UGCC [8] Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey – founding member of the UGCC [9]
The immediate aftermath of the riots included the arrest on 12 March 1948 of "the Big Six" – Kwame Nkrumah and other leading activists in the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) party (namely Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, Edward Akufo-Addo, J. B. Danquah, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey and William Ofori Atta), [24] who were held responsible for ...
Kwame Nkrumah was elected UGCC secretary general, after being recommended by Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, [2] and Grant paid Nkrumah's £100 boat fare to return to Ghana from Liverpool that year. [ 7 ] Nkrumah later split from the UGCC to form the Convention People’s Party (CPP), and Grant eventually concentrated more on his businesses than politics.
After winning the Accra Central seat, Nkrumah was released from prison, and was appointed "Leader of Government Business", [14] before becoming the country's first Prime Minister the following year after a constitutional amendment. Another new constitution was promulgated in 1954, followed by elections the same year, also won by the CPP.
In May 1956, Prime Minister Nkrumah's government issued a white paper containing proposals for Gold Coast independence. The British Government stated it would agree to a firm date for independence if a reasonable majority for such a step were obtained in the Gold Coast Legislative Assembly after a general election.
The release of the Big Six saw a separation between Nkrumah and the other members of the UGCC and Nkrumah eventually broke away in 1949 to found the Convention People's Party (CPP). Ako Adjei however stayed with the UGCC and subsequently became critical of Nkrumah in his newspapers, the African National Times and the Star of Ghana. [8]
Kwame Nkrumah was officially introduced to the UGCC's Working Committee as their Secretary on 28 December 1947 and soon got to work seeking to expand the support base of the UGCC by mobilizing the youth through local youth societies in the Colony (e.g., Apowa Literary and Social Club) and the Ashanti Confederacy [16] (e.g., Asante Youth ...