Ghanaian independence
1957 · Event
Kwame Nkrumah leads Ghana to become the first sub-Saharan colony to gain independence.
On these timelines: The Decolonisation of Africa, Master, Sub-Saharan Africa, British Empire
More from The Decolonisation of Africa
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Congo Crisis / Assassination of Lumumba (1960)
- The Organisation of African Unity founded (1963)
- Wind of Change speech (1960)
- Portugal's African empire ends (1975)
Around 1957
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)