African Independence

The British colony known as the Gold coast became the first african colony south of the sahara to achieve independenece after world war II . The bristish Colony of the Gold Coast would be come to known as Gahana. The leadere of their nonviolent protests was Kwame Nkrumah . He was a former teacher who had spent several years studying in the United States . in the 1940s, he worked to free the Gold Coast from British control