Records of the U.S. State Department: Ghana, Political Relations and Governmental Affairs, February 1963-1966 (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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In 1960 the Republic of Ghana was formed, the same year that Kwame Nkrumah was elected president. Nkrumah advocated centralization, both political and economic, and by the mid-1960s, Ghana had become a one-party state under a powerful president. In 1966 Nkrumah was overthrown and a military government assumed power. But neither military nor civilian governments during the next fifteen years were able to deal successfully with the host of problems that Nkrumah had left behind him. This collection of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relating to internal affairs contains a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats, including special reports on political and military affairs; studies and statistics on socioeconomic matters; interviews and minutes of meetings with government officials, and much more.


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