When Ghana gained independence from Britain on March 6, 1957, the country entered a new era under the leadership of its first ...

Books & the Arts / Through Nkrumah’s story, Howard French charts the history of African decolonization and the American civil rights movement. Adom Getachew Accra’s Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, built ...

Ghana Month, as the month of March is known among citizens, is dedicated to celebrating Ghana's culture and other historic events that have given birth to Ghana, as it is her month of independence ...

In this magisterial account, journalist French (Born in Blackness) revisits the history of the Pan-Africanist movement through the life of Ghanaian prime minister Kwame Nkrumah, who in 1957 became the ...

As a young man, I sat at the feet of my grandparents, listening to the rhythmic cadence of their voices as they spoke of ...

Since gaining independence in 1957, Ghana’s housing market has undergone profound transformations, shaped by demographic ...

Like everyone else, I read about him in history books with what now emerges to be a missing detail that I was to learn as I stood at his place of burial. The detail was of him being buried three times ...

At midnight on March 6, 1957, Crown subjects in the Gold Coast celebrated the end of British colonial rule by naming themselves citizens of a new nation-state, the Republic of Ghana. As Howard W.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Factory printed cloths were ...