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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. [84] [85]
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]
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 ...
A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music, pre-written (or improvised) to be played on a classical, electric, or acoustic guitar. In 20th and 21st century traditional music and popular music such as blues , swing , jazz , jazz fusion , rock and heavy metal , guitar solos often contain virtuoso techniques ...
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 ...
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
He was born on 26 April 1902 at a Ga village near Ode, a suburb of Accra.His father was Jacob Mills Lamptey, a businessman, and his mother was Victoria Ayeley Tetteh. His step-brother was Gottlieb Ababio Adom (1904–1979), an educator, journalist, editor and Presbyterian minister who served as the Editor of the Christian Messenger, the newspaper of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, from 1966 ...