In "The Sunshine Land: Ghana at Fifty," David Wedd draws from his own firsthand experiences as a witness to Ghana's struggle for independence, allowing readers to relive the momentous events that ...

Google Doodle has commemorated Ghana’s Independence Day on 6 March. On this day in 1957, Ghana became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to become a free nation officially. The country gained its ...

Nkrumah was a politician and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of ...

Born on the day Ghana became independent from Britain, Godson Dag-Sosu has seen coups, food shortages and power cuts during his 50 years of life. After a checkered independent history, punctuated by a ...