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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 of ...
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]
Nkrumah hesitated but realized that the UGCC was controlled by conservative interests and noted that the new post could open huge political opportunities for him and accepted. After being questioned by British officials about his communist affiliations, Nkrumah boarded the MV Accra at Liverpool in November 1947 for the voyage home. [85] [86]
In 1947 he was a founding member of the pro-independence United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) founded by George Alfred Grant as a combination of chiefs, academics and lawyers, [4] [5] Robert Benjamin Blay, R. A. Awoonor-Williams, Edward Akufo-Addo, and Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey. Kwame Nkrumah was invited
At the West Africa arena, he officially rejected the recommendations on 20 November 1949. Nkrumah declared the Coussey constitution as "bogus and fraudulent". A principal body, the Ghana Representative Council (ARC), was formed to initiate an appeal against the report. [4] This event led to Nkrumah breaking away from the UGCC.
The first President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah, together with some other prominent African leaders at the time such as Julius Nyerere from Tanzania and Gamal Abdel Nasser from Egypt, joined hands with non-African leaders from countries beyond Cold War bloc divides, including Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Sukarno of ...
Dr. Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, a senior lecturer in the history and political studies program at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), claims that the president appears to be pursuing an agenda to overexpand the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), which was founded in 1947 by J.B. Danquah and George Alfred "Paa" Grant. "The ...
Nkrumah was elected leader of Government Business in the Legislative Assembly in February 1951 and released from prison to take up this role. Walter Sisulu , Secretary General of the African National Congress sent a letter of congratulations which was published in the Accra Evening News , a newspaper founded by Nkrumah on 28 February 1951.