MOVE FOR INDEPENDENCE IN WEST AFRICA .

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On the 6th March 1957, modern Ghana, a former British colony known as the Gold Coast, made history when it ceased to remain under the British flag.

It became the first colony in what was called 'black Africa ' to become completely independent to European rules. Ghana's example served as a torch which swiftly fired many other African countries.

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By 1960, 18 more European colonies in Africa had become sovereign nations. This number included Guinea which became independent in 1958 and Nigeria which became independent in October 1960.

During a tour of Africa in 1960, Harold Macmillan, then the prime minister of Great Britain, described this national consciousness, or feeling, which he noticed all over Africa as a strong 'wind of change '.

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This description was, indeed, accurate, for the demand for independence swept across the whole continent of Africa like a gale.

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We may ask the question, 'What brought about this great changes?' It came as a result of many forces which had been at work for some time. Here we can describe only a few.