Misplaced Pages

This article is part of a series about Kwame Nkrumah
Early life and education Gold Coast Pan-African Congress United Gold Coast Convention The Big Six Convention People's Party Positive Action General elections 1951 1954 1956 1st Prime Minister of Ghana Dominion of Ghana Decolonisation of Africa Ghana Independence Act 1957 All-African Peoples' Conference 1st President of Ghana Nkrumah government 1960 constitutional referendum Congo Crisis Port Francqui incident CWAAD Winneba Ideological Institute Casablanca Group Non-Aligned Movement Kulungugu bomb attack 1964 constitutional referendum President for life 1965 parliamentary election Akosombo Dam National Liberation Council coup d'etat Nkrumaism African socialism Anti-imperialism Classless society Cult of personality Egalitarianism Marxism Leninism Neocolonialism One-party state Pan-Africanism Self-determination Social justice State ownership Legacy Death and state funeral Democratic People's Party Founders' Day Kwame Nkrumah Festival Mausoleum
v t e

This article is missing information about the 1950 general strike across the country for independence and more info generally. Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (October 2024)

The Positive Action campaign was a series of political protests and strikes in pre-independence Ghana; a political activism campaign. The campaign was launched by Kwame Nkrumah before his election by popular vote as the ruler of Gold Coast and then Prime Minister of Ghana after the independence. The Positive Action campaign was launched to fight imperialism through nonviolence and education of the people. However, when Nkrumah launched the campaign, riots erupted throughout the capital, Accra.

The campaign ended with Nkrumah's election and the transformation from British colony to independent nation, hence ending the decolonization process.

References

1. Biography of Kwame Nkrumah on Africa Within
2. Ghana on Answers
3. The architect of Ghana's independence on BBC
4. Nkrumah and Ghana’s independence struggle on Workers World

This Ghana-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Nkrumaism
• Political campaigns
• General strikes in Africa
• Politics of Ghana
• Ghana stubs
• Labor disputes in Africa
• Labour in Ghana