N which conferred on the united states of america a self-governing popularity.

The United Gold Coast

Convention (UGCC) turned into the primary local political party within the Gold Coast.[14] General
elections were held in 1951. The election turned into the primary in Africa to be held underneath
regularly occurring suffrage.[15] As a result, Kwame Nkrumah, who represented the Convention People's
Party (CPP) changed into elected as the first Prime Minister of Ghana in 1952.[16][17] There became
also the approval of a brand new constitution on 29 April 1954. The new charter meant that assembly
participants have been not elected through the ethnic councils, the meeting become enlarged, and all
members have been selected by using direct election from equal, unmarried-member constituencies. It
installed a cupboard composed of African ministers, and only defense and overseas coverage remained
in the hands of the governor; the elected meeting become given control over the majority of inner
affairs.[18] In order to mirror the provisions of the brand new charter, a state wide election changed
into held in 1954 which become received by way of the CPP, a political birthday celebration based with
the aid of Kwame Nkrumah. The 1954 General election gave the usa its first All-African assembly.[19]

A voter receives a ballot paper from a polling assistant on the Kumbungu Polling Station inside the
Northern Territories, during the 1956 general elections.

Elections were organised in July 1956 through the British authorities which saw the CPP win by means of
a landslide. On third August 1956, Kwame Nkrumah surpassed a suggestion in Parliament, calling for the
independence of the Gold Coast of which the British regularly occurring. The United Nations organized a
plebiscite on nine May 1956 to decide whether or not the Trust Territory of Togoland might be a part of
Ghana at Independence.[20] Majority of the human beings in the Trust Territory of Togoland voted
inside the plebiscite for unification with Ghana. [20][21][22] Ghana received independence in 1957 and
the primary presidential elections took place in 1960. Kwame Nkrumah emerged because the first
president of sovereign Ghana.[23]