1957 AD
Ghana and Malaya accelerate decolonization
British Empire · Resistance & colonized agency · Self-government & Commonwealth · Decolonization & independence
Ghana, under Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party, became the first sub-Saharan British colony to gain independence in the postwar wave. Months later, Tunku Abdul Rahman led the negotiated independence of the Federation of Malaya while the Emergency was still underway
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