HISTORY 2JJ3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: United Gold Coast Convention, Fula People, Psychological Resistance
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The road to independence: africa from sahara to zambezi, in africa since 1800: 244-266. Roots of nationalism reach in many directs: one powerful impulse was the growing ethnic awareness of the descendants of the. Until 1947, although it had won the scholars over, it had achieved nothing in africa: dr. azikiwes newspapers got it out to the general public. Colonial gov saw it as mere students talk. Invited nkrumah to be the general secretary he toured ghana and got inds involved from them he approved of them. After 7 years they were granted independence. The sequel to ghana in british w africa. French africans were at first concerned more w cultural than political aspects of colonialism: english speaking nationalists wrote constitutions whereas the french wrote poetry. Support for him extended into the upper volta where it came into collision with the rda main issue: agreement of a fed policy: rda had a communist alliance with houphouet as the president.