State the important roles played by Kwame Nkrumah in the struggle of independence in Ghana.
Answer:
-He formed the Conventions Peoples Party (CIPP) which protested against colonialism.
- He made CPP a very vibrant and popular party and made it a mass movement.
- He started a Newspaper ‘The Accra Evening news’ through which the African grievances were articulated.
- He toured the country, holding political rallies to sensitize Africans on the evils of colonialism.
- He was very innovative in politics by producing a party flag and a party salute.
- He united the country by advocating for a unitary form of government unlike other parties which preferred regional/federal government.
- CPP under Kwame Nkrumah won elections in 1951 and formed the first African government just
before independence.
- Nkrumah's leadership in CPP'S government was marked by social, economic and political developments in Ghana.
- He united the Africans in the struggle for independence since his Party CPP gained widespread support from farmers, elites, unemployed etc.