African Independence

After World War II, people of Africa were unwilling to return to colonial domination. And so, following the great global conflict, they, too, won their independence from foreign rule and went to work building new nations. They began to express their growing sense of pride in traditional Africa. Africans formed a movement to celebrate African culture, heritage, and values, it was called the Negritude movement. European nations employed two basic styles of government in Africa called direct and indirect. Colonies under indirect rule experienced an easier way to independence. So for colonies under direct rule to gain independence was more difficult. Some colonies even had to fight wars for freedom.

Later in 1947, there was a new leader called Kwame Nkrumah who worked to liberate the Gold Coast African colony. He was often imprisoned by the British government, but in 1957 his efforts were successful, he gained the Gold Coast colony's independence. Then he became the president of this colony and he made new schools, new roads, and expanded health facilities.