Nkrumah's leadership of Ghana
1957–1966 · Event
Led the first sub-Saharan colony to independence and preached pan-Africanism until the army removed him.
On these timelines: Master, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Decolonisation of Africa
Around 1957
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)