GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

  The coup was masterminded by a man called Kotaka of Kumasi infantry brigade. Nkrumah was overthrown when he had gone to Vietnam to attend a public meeting. After the coup a national liberation council was instituted led by General Ankrah, this committee led Ghana until power was passed on to Dr. Busia in 1969 when his party (progressive party) won the elections. Change of character. The once humble flexible Nkrumah commonly known as Osagyefo (the redeemer) turned into a selfish and arrogant leader such that by 1960 he only trusted himself and stopped accepting constructive ideas. This worked to make him unpopular and in 1966 he was overthrown. Open dictatorship. He harassed his critics for example when the United party was formed in 1957, the following year 1958 Nkrumah introduced the preventive detention act such that 1960-65 about 1361 people had be detained without trial. These included JB Danquar who even died in prison. Nkrumah raped the Ghanaian constitution. He issued the ...

  Note: These are facilitating factors to nationalism that had risen as a result of colonial injustices such as forced labour, poor taxation system among others. The Africans were now fed up of the trusteeship policy of reformist approach and needed a complete overhaul of the colonial order. Therefore the nationalists that emerged in the disadvantaged countries of the world especially Africa and Asia such as Nkrumah, Nyerere, Ghandi, Nehru were so positive to real change therefore the factors for the growth and development are as follows; NOTE: The first factor to consider are the European colonial policies such as forced labour, heavy taxation, forced cash crop growing among others which inked the Africans to fight for the restoration of African dignity and independence. The need to preserve and regain African independence. Following the Berlin conference 1884, Africa was divided up amongst the hungry European imperialists and the African chiefs became answerable to the white new ...

  Western Europe had dominated the world in the first four decades of the 20th century until 1941 when USA and USSR entered the 2nd world war, after the war USA and USSR dominated the whole world replacing Britain and France plus Germany and Italy which had been active colonial masters. The new super powers had ideologies and wanted to deal with independent world states such led to cold war which was very important in the struggle for African liberation. USA and USSR were ideologically different that is USSR was the leader of the socialist bloc while the USA was the leader of the communist bloc in this ideological competition one power could not be allowed to run Africa therefore the super powers ended up advocating for independence of African states. USA poured in aid to LDC’s as a way of counteracting the soviet influence.In this way the colonized African states obtained the resources material, financial, military which they effectively used to challenged colonial rule. USA had b...

  In 1945 the UN was formed immediately after World War II replacing the highly discredited League of Nations that had ignored the rape of Ethiopia by Italy, and watched world war 11 without coming up with lasting solutions. The UN had a charter which was partly inspired by the Atlantic charter of 1941 which was concluded by the American president Franklin Roosevelt and the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The UN was inaugurated at San Francisco (in USA) conference which basically continued with the observations of the principles of the Atlantic charter. The UN was therefore the revival on the defunct League of Nations in a more serious manner. Its roles can be analyzed as follows:- Among its objectives was the eradication of imperialism article 10 declared that people should enjoy equal rights and be allowed to be self-determined which was in line with the principles of the Atlantic charter which had called for the respect of the right of all people to choose their own fo...