Question

Establishment of dictatorship in ghana

Answer 1

The country that is called 'Ghana' today was a British Colony called Gold Coast. It became an independent country in 1957.

It was among the first countries in Africa to get independence from colonial rule. Kwame Nkrumah who had taken an active part in the freedom struggle of the country became its first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana.

Later on he got himself elected President for life. He justified his action by saying that, "Even a system based on democratic constitution may need backing up in the period following independence by emergency measures of a totalitarian kind."

Shortly, thereafter, in 1966, he was overthrown by military. Ghana no longer remained a democracy.