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United Gold Coast Convention
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United Gold Coast Convention | |
|---|---|
| Leader | George Alfred Grant |
| Secretary | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Spokesperson | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Founder | George Alfred Grant |
| Founded | 4 August 1947 |
| Dissolved | 1952 |
| Headquarters | Accra |
| Ideology | Conservatism[1][2] |
| Political position | Centre-right[1] |
| 1951 elections | 2 |
The United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) was an early nationalist movement with the aim of self-government " in the shortest possible time" founded in August 1947 by educated Africans such as J.B. Danquah, A.G. Grant, R.A. Awoonor-Williams, Edward Akufo Addo (all lawyers except for Grant, who was a wealthy businessman), and others, the leadership of the organisation called for the replacement of Chiefs on the Legislative Council with educated persons. whose aim was to bring about Ghanaian independence from their British colonial masters after the Second World War.[3][4] The United Gold Coast Convention appointed its leaders to include Kwame Nkrumah, who was the Secretary General. However, upon an allegation for plans against Nkrumah's leadership, he was arrested and jailed.[5] The UGCC leadership broke up and Kwame Nkrumah went on a separate way to set up the Convention People's Party (CPP) for the purpose of self-governance.[6] The UGCC was founded in Saltpond.
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- ^ Firmin-Sellers, Kathryn (1999). "The Concentration of Authority: Constitutional Creation in the Gold Coast, 1950". Polycentric Governance and Development. University of Michigan Press. p. 191.
- ^ "'Allah Might Provide the Fuel': Muslim Sailors in British Colonial Navies, from the Second World War to Independence". Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century: Far from Jihad. Bloomsbury Academic. 2017. doi:10.5040/9781474249454.ch-009. ISBN 978-1-4742-4945-4. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "The Politics of the Independence Movements". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ "Nkrumah, Dr Kwame (21 Sept. 1909–27 April 1972)". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u158013. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ SECRETARY OF THE UGCC. Sub-Saharan Publishers. 15 November 2007. pp. 52–72. doi:10.2307/j.ctvk3gm60.9. ISBN 978-9988-647-81-0. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
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