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In December we revisited many consequential and interesting moments in Ghanaian history. Check out some of the topics that we covered below!
1. The Black Stars won their first Africa Cup of Nations title
2. Azumah Nelson wins World Featherweight Crown
4. Nkrumah fires Chief Justice Sir Arku Korsah, after court acquits Kulungugu bombing suspects
5. Sir W. E. Maxwell, Governor of the Gold Coast dies at sea
6. President Atta-Mills commissions First Oil on FPSP Nkrumah
7. Kwame Nkrumah becomes General Secretary of the UGCC
8. The opposition NLM and NPP boycott constitutional talks at Achimota
9. The Independence Bill for the gold Coast was passed in the UK House of Commons
10. Kobena Gyan, King of Elmina, formally protested the planned British takeover of Elmina Castle.
11. 110 state owned enterprises had been divested in Ghana
12. Mali joins the Ghana-Guinea Union
13. John Agyekum Kufuor won the presidential election
14. The NPP led an opposition boycott of parliamentary elections in Ghana
15. The Colonial Government Published the new Gold Coast Constitution
16. Kwame Nkrumah announces a referendum for a one party state
17. Rawlings overthrows Limann's government in a coup d'etat