Question

How did Kwame Nkrumah use broadcasting in the development of the country​

Answer 1

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1) Nkrumah leader of Ghana used broadcasting which includes television, radio, internet publishing and newspapers.

2) eventually controlled all the press in Ghana and saw it as an instrument of state authority, providing propaganda that encouraged national unity and creating a hierarchal system of state apparatus to manage the media.

3)Transfer of the media had changed hands from a civilian to a military government, and a series of arrests and imprisonment of political opponents by Nkrumah had a chilling effect on the media.

TELEVISION AND RADIO

1966 coup of Nkrumah by the National Liberation Council , the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation announced a decree to, "broadcast programmes in the field of culture, education, information and entertainment, to reflect national progress and aspirations, and to broadcast in the main Ghanaian languages and in English.

Answer 2

He was Ghana's first prime minister and president, leading the Gold Coast in 1957 towards independence from the British. Nkrumah was a leading supporter of Pan-Africanism, and in 1962 was one of its founder leaders and Lenin Peace Prize recipients.

Explanation:

• Gold Coast media first appeared in the 19th century when "The Gold Coast Gazette" & "Commercial Intelligencer" were published in 1822. Only four journals were published following the Ghana Declaration of Independence from the UK by 7 March 1957..
• Leader Kwame Nkrumah finally controlled all the media in Ghana and viewed it as a tool of state authority that encouraged and propagated national unity and set up a system of hierarchy to manage the media..
• The Guinean Press which was established post independence & under Kwame Nkrumah's one-party government published propaganda & ideological magazines & newspapers to propagate politics & socialist ideas.
• Amongst them,"The Spark", " The Evening News," many periodicals for the party’s mass organizations such as 'women’s association', "the Young Pioneers" "student organisations", etc. It also published for the global market, Africa & the world, a magazine on anti-imperialism & African Unity.
• For acceleration of development, Nkrumah was using radio programs and other mass media forms. In order to educate and mobilize the people for various social , economic and cultural development programmes, independence broadcasting  had a very successful and essential role. It also played a "significant role" in the building of a single, united, multiethnic Ghana political state