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Independence of Ghana (1957)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “Accra — Ghana is free”
6 Mar 1957 — At midnight Kwame Nkrumah proclaims Ghana independent, the first sub-Saharan colony to throw off European rule. He gives the achievement a wider purpose: “Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.”
When 6 Mar 1957 Type Turning point Chapter Nkrumah and Ghana’s independence (chapter 3 of Decolonization of Africa)Atlas The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994 TURNING POINT · THE DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA, 1945–1994 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1: reviewed historical components · UN General Assembly: Eritrea federation, 11 September 1952 · UK National Archives: Kenya emergency and independence records · Natural Earth v5.1.2: 1:10m countries · UN: former Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories · UN: Rhodesia and Nyasaland federation, 1953–1963 · UN: British Togoland administration and 1956 termination · UN: trust territories and their agreements
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Explicit record/component selection; documented nearby-date proxies, intersections and unions. Known compound-name and end-date errors excluded. UN General Assembly resolution 617 (VII). Historical factual evidence; text and images not reproduced UK National Archives. Historical factual evidence; text and images not reproduced Natural Earth. Public domain · Full source coordinates retained; African extraction; Egypt self-touching ring repaired with negligible area delta; explicit historical unions. United Nations; territorial successions and independence dates. Historical factual evidence; text and images not reproduced United Nations. Historical factual evidence; text and images not reproduced United Nations. Historical factual evidence; text and images not reproduced United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library. Historical factual evidence; text and images not reproduced The maps are reconstructed from published sources. Explicit records provide historical unions and changed colonial units; inherited outer boundaries use the closest reusable reference from the source vintage.
War hatches mark affected administrative reporting regions. They do not trace exact fronts or the extent of controlled territory. Each layer records its source selection and boundary dates.
proxy: Before 1964; contemporary source outline · proxy: Country/territory reference; conflict dates follow the chapter · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 contemporary reference · reconstruction: 1945–1958; contemporary source perimeter · reconstruction: 1945–1960; contemporary source perimeter · reconstruction: 1945–1962; contemporary source perimeter · reconstruction: 1945–1994; contemporary source perimeter · reconstruction: 1952–1993; contemporary source perimeter · reconstruction: 1953–1963; contemporary source perimeter · reconstruction: Before 1964; contemporary source outline · vector: 1936–1986; used through 1985 · vector: 1943–1959 source; used through 1960 · vector: 1945–1957 · vector: 1949–1952 source; reused through 1966 · vector: 1956–1957 · vector: 1960 source; carried back to 1945 · vector: 1963–1975 source; nearby-date exterior reference for 1945–1994 · vector: 1969–1986; reused as pre-unification geographic proxy
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