Give the causes of nationalism in Ghana.
Answer:
- Economic exploitation of Africans by the British e.g. forced labour, taxation etc.
- Alienation of African land which was given to the European settlers.
- Unemployment among many Ghanaian elites and the youth.
- Role of educated elites who sensitized the masses on the importance of independence.
- Denial of trade licenses to African traders.
- Participation of Ghananians in the first and second world war.
- Africans were opposed to the appointment of uneducated /illiterate chiefs.
- The colonial government was forcing Africans farmers to cut down their cocoa trees due to the swollen shoot disease.
- The rise and spread of the spirit of Pan-Africanism.
- The Africans got very little profits from the cocoa they were forced to grow.
- Alienation of African land which was given to the European settlers.
- Unemployment among many Ghanaian elites and the youth.
- Role of educated elites who sensitized the masses on the importance of independence.
- Denial of trade licenses to African traders.
- Participation of Ghananians in the first and second world war.
- Africans were opposed to the appointment of uneducated /illiterate chiefs.
- The colonial government was forcing Africans farmers to cut down their cocoa trees due to the swollen shoot disease.
- The rise and spread of the spirit of Pan-Africanism.
- The Africans got very little profits from the cocoa they were forced to grow.
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