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The Togoland Campaign (9–26 August 1914) was a French and British invasion of the German colony of Togoland in West Africa (which became Togo and the Volta Region of Ghana after independence) during the First World War. The colony was invaded on 6 August, by French forces from Dahomey to the east and on 9 August by British forces from Gold ...
The area of the Republic of Ghana (the then Gold Coast) became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. [1] Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Sénégal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal ...
The Political history of Ghana traces the evolution of governance in Ghana from pre-colonial times through the colonial era and into the post-independence period. Before European intervention, Ghana was a diverse region composed of multiple states and ethnic groups, each with distinct political structures.
1957 March - Ghana becomes independent with Kwame Nkrumah as prime minister. [1] 1960 - Ghana becomes a republic. Kwame Nkrumah becomes the country's first elected president. [6] 1964 - Kwame Nkrumah declares that there will be no other political party apart from the Convention People's Party (CPP), the one party state system.
France Guinea: January 1, 1960 France Cameroon: April 27, 1960 France Togo: June 20, 1960 France Mali: June 26, 1960 France Madagascar: Independence restored after French rule, initial establishment as Kingdom of Madagascar in 1817, a successor to the earlier Merina Kingdom. June 30, 1960 Belgium DR Congo: Named Zaire from 1971-1997.
1919–1922 — The Treaty of Versailles divides Germany's African colonies into mandates of the victors (which largely become new colonies of the victors). Most of Cameroon becomes a French mandate with a small portion taken by the British and some territory incorporated into France's previously existing colonies; Togo is mostly taken by the British, though the French gain a slim portion ...
Algerian women in the Algerian War of Independence. The FLN officially started the Algerian War for Independence and followed A ̈ıt Ahmed's advice by creating tensions in the Franco-American relations. [2] Due to the intensifying global relations, the Algerian War became a "kind of world war—a war for world opinion". [2]
After the Second World War British Togoland became a United Nations Trust Territory that was under British administration. In the 1956 British Togoland status plebiscite , 58% of the western Togolese voted to integrate into what would in 1957 become independent Ghana .