Convention People's Party founded
1949 · Event
Kwame Nkrumah breaks from the United Gold Coast Convention to found a mass party demanding 'self-government now'.
On these timelines: The Decolonisation of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, British Empire, Master
More from The Decolonisation of Africa
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Ghanaian independence (1957)
- Congo Crisis / Assassination of Lumumba (1960)
- The Organisation of African Unity founded (1963)
- Portugal's African empire ends (1975)
- Wind of Change speech (1960)
- Congo gains independence (1960)
- Lumumba's independence day speech (1960)
Around 1949
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)