"End of Empire - The Gold Coast" - Full length documentary about Ghana
"End of Empire - The Gold Coast" - Full length documentary about Ghana
id:ITV-01-1383
format:SD
location:Ghana, Africa
History series charting the events that led to the end of Great Britain's imperial rule. The Gold Coast, now Ghana, was Britain's model colony: the first in black Africa to hold an election and the first to achieve independence. The British here granted self government fast enough to be regarded as the most progressive of all the colonial powers. At the end of the second World War Africa had not yet entered the race for independence. In the Gold Coast independence came with unexpected speed. Kwame Nkrumah was it's nationalist leader. As president of Ghana he inspired the nationists that were to sweep the colonial powers out of Africa