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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 ...
The first directly held elections in the country's history took place on 19 June 1954 and the CPP won 72 out of 104 seats, the GCP (the last rump of the UGCC) were routed winning only 1 seat and so it was left to the Northern People's Party (NPP) with 12 seats to form the official opposition.
Nkrumah recounted in his autobiography that he knew that a break with the UGCC was inevitable, and wanted the masses behind him when the conflict occurred. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Nkrumah's appeals for "Free-Dom" appealed to the great numbers of underemployed youths who had come from the farms and villages to the towns.
William Ofori Atta headed a committee convened at Saltpond, later in June 1949, to settle the differences between Kwame Nkrumah and other UGCC members. The Committee on Youth Organization (CYO), the youth wing, insisted Nkrumah not be reconciled with the intelligentsia. At the West Africa arena, he officially rejected the recommendations on 20 ...
The Accra Evening News was a daily newspaper established in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1948 by Kwame Nkrumah.The paper's appearance marked the foundation of the press in the country as a powerful means to mobilize people, and was followed by publication of the Morning Telegraph of Sekondi appeared in January 1949, and then the Daily Mail of Cape Coast.
CHICAGO — A police chase on Interstate 94 involving a vehicle in a possible kidnapping ended in a crash in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood. According to Illinois State Police, the ...
During his time in Britain, Nkrumah came to know such outspoken anti-colonialists and intellectuals as the West Indian George Padmore, and the African-American W. E. B. Du Bois [159] In 1947, when the UGCC was created in the Gold Coast to oppose colonial rule, Nkrumah was invited from London to become the movement's general secretary.
“Chicago is a blue city and Illinois is a blue state but people are starting to wake up,” Brooks told The Post last week at his church. “It’s not about the person, it’s about the policies.