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Ghana, once a British colony
called Gold Coast, became independent 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 a democratic constitution may need backing up in the period following
independence by emergency measures of a totalitarian kind'. He was best-known
politically for his strong commitment to and promotion of Pan-Africanism. He
was a founding member of the organization of African unity and was the winner
of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.Shortly, thereafter, in 1966 he was overthrown
by the military. Ghana no longer remained a democracy. (3)
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