Mondo Knows Facts
Ghana gained independence under Kwame Nkrumah
The Gold Coast became a sovereign state in March 1957 after years of campaigning After a decade of nationalist campaigning and strikes, the Gold Coast became independent as Ghana on 6 March 1957, with Kwame Nkrumah as prime minister. It was among the first European colonies in Africa to win black majority rule. Nkrumah argued openly for continental unity, and other colonies followed within a decade. It sits in Mondo's history collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
Where this comes from
Facts that can change over time are reviewed and updated. If something here looks wrong, Mondo would rather know than be confidently incorrect.
Go further
More facts like this
The Suez Crisis exposed the limits of empireBritain and France withdrew in 1956 after the United States refused to back themHong Kong returned to China in 1997The ninety nine year New Territories lease expired and ended British ruleThe Montgomery bus boycott lasted 381 daysBlack residents walked and shared cars until the city changed its seating rulesSalk's polio vaccine was declared effective in 1955A trial involving hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren reported results in AprilCarbon dating gave archaeology an absolute clockLiving things absorb a radioactive isotope that decays at a known rate after deathTree rings can date timber to the exact yearDendrochronology matches growth patterns to build calendars stretching back millennia
🏛️ Historyfact 168 of 200
← → to keep reading, or swipe
Tags: ghana, decolonisation, nkrumah
Ghana gained independence under Kwame Nkrumah: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The Gold Coast became a sovereign state in March 1957 after years of campaigning. The figure is taken from UK National Archives, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a history fact?
- Yes. It sits on the History shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.