Dates

Question 1

Nkrumah returns to the Gold Coast from studying in the UK

Answer 1

1947

Question 2

Death of Nkrumah

Answer 2

1973

Question 3

coup d’état against Nkrumah implemented by the National Liberation council

Answer 3

1966

Question 4

Ghana’s independence

Answer 4

March 6th 1957

Question 5

General Strike orchestrated by Nkrumah

Answer 5

1950

Question 6

Nkrumah becomes PM of Ghana after landslide election

Answer 6

1951

Question 7

Formation of the CPP (convention people’s party) - Nkrumah breaks from the UGCC because they are too elitist

Answer 7

June 1949

Question 8

Formation of the UGCC (united Gold Coast Convention)

Answer 8

August 1947

Question 9

Nkrumah founds the Bureaus of African Affairs (the BAA)

Answer 9

1959

Question 10

Conferences led by Nkrumah encouraging independence movements in other African countries

Answer 10

1958 - the All-African People’s conference and the Conference of Independent African States (both same year)

Question 11

Boycott of SA goods which Nkrumah was reluctant to support

Answer 11

1959

Question 12

Sharpeville Massacre in SA which re-radicalised Nkrumah on the issue of apartheid

Answer 12

March 1960

Question 13

Nkrumah is granted a $600 Million loan to build the Volta River Dam - this loan had conditions attached

Answer 13

1957

Question 14

Nkrumah’s book Africa Must Unite

Answer 14

1963

Question 15

Bus strike after Nkrumah takes power that represents Tribal tensions inn independent Ghana

Answer 15

1957 - led by the Ga people, who believed other ethnic groups were getting preferential treatment in government.

Question 16

Avoidance of Discrimination Act

Answer 16

1957

Question 17

Ghana becomes a one party state after “obviously rigged” referendum

Answer 17

1964

Question 18

When and Why was Nkrumah arrested?

Answer 18

1951 after boycotts in Ghana and riots that followed march and strike organised by the CPP in 1950

Question 19

second election of Ghana - result and date

Answer 19

1954 - CPP wins majority but opposition grows (Northern People’s party an National liberation movement) especially in northern region

Question 20

united party forms in opposition to CPP

Answer 20

1957 led by Kofu Abrefa Busia

Question 21

Preventive DetentionAct allowing Nkrumah to incarcerate people for up to five years without charge or trial, with only Nkrumah empowered to release prisoners early - this followed an attempted assasination attempt against Nkrumah - represents his fall into authoriatarianims

Answer 21

1958

Question 22

Constitutional Amendment Act - abolished assemblies and allowed the parliament to amend the constitution with a simply majority

Answer 22

1959 - in response to regional assemblies disagreeing with him

Question 23

queen Elizabeth II remained sovereign over Ghana until…

Answer 23

1960

Question 24

Bandung Conference

Answer 24

1955

Question 25

Creation of the organisation of African Unity (OAU)

Answer 25

1963