Title: Decolonisation of Africa - Wikipedia
Headings: Decolonisation of Africa
Decolonisation of Africa
Contents
Background
Causes
External causes
Internal causes
Economic legacy
Social legacy
Language
Law
Transition to independence
British Empire
Ghana
Winds of Change
French colonial empire
Conflict
Algeria
French Community
Timeline
Timeline notes
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: and they wish to see sovereign rights and self government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them." This agreement became the post-WWII stepping stone toward independence as nationalism grew throughout Africa. Consumed with post-war debt, European powers were no longer able to afford the resources needed to maintain control of their African colonies. This allowed for African nationalists to negotiate decolonisation very quickly and with minimal casualties. Some territories, however, saw great death tolls as a result of their fight for independence. British Empire
British Empire by 1959
Ghana
Main article: History of Ghana
On 6 March 1957, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) became the second sub-Saharan African country to gain its independence from European colonisation. Starting in 1945 Pan-African Congress, Gold Coast's British- and American-educated independence leader Kwame Nkrumah made his focus clear. In the conference's declaration, he wrote, "we believe in the rights of all peoples to govern themselves. We affirm the right of all colonial peoples to control their own destiny.