United Gold Coast Convention

United Gold Coast Convention
United Gold Coast Convention
Leader	George Alfred Grant
Secretary	Kwame Nkrumah
Spokesperson	Kwame Nkrumah
Founder	George Alfred Grant;
Founded	4 August 1947
Dissolved	1952
Headquarters	Accra
Ideology	Conservatism
Political position	Centre-right
1951 elections	2
	Politics of Ghana; Political parties; Elections;

The United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) was first nationalist movement with the aim of self-government " in the shortest possible time" founded in August 1947 by educated Africans such as J.B. Danquah, A.G. Grant, R.A. Awoonor-Williams, Edward Akufo Addo (all lawyers except for Grant, who was a wealthy businessman), and others, the leadership of the organisation called for the replacement of Chiefs on the Legislative Council with educated persons. whose aim was to bring about Ghanaian independence from their British colonial masters after the Second World War.^[3]^[4] The United Gold Coast Convention appointed its leaders to include Kwame Nkrumah, who was the Secretary General. However, upon an allegation for plans against Nkrumah's leadership, he was arrested and jailed.^[5] The UGCC leadership broke up and Kwame Nkrumah went on a separate way to set up the Convention People's Party (CPP) for the purpose of self-governance.^[6] The UGCC was founded in Saltpond.

^ ^a ^b Aubynn, Anthony Kwesi (2002). "Behind the Transparent Ballot Box: The Significance of the 1990s Elections in Ghana". Multi-Party Elections in Africa. James Currey. p. 77.
^ Firmin-Sellers, Kathryn (1999). "The Concentration of Authority: Constitutional Creation in the Gold Coast, 1950". Polycentric Governance and Development. University of Michigan Press. p. 191.
^ "'Allah Might Provide the Fuel': Muslim Sailors in British Colonial Navies, from the Second World War to Independence". Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century: Far from Jihad. Bloomsbury Academic. 2017. doi:10.5040/9781474249454.ch-009. ISBN 978-1-4742-4945-4. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ "The Politics of the Independence Movements". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
^ "Nkrumah, Dr Kwame (21 Sept. 1909–27 April 1972)". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u158013. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
^ "SECRETARY OF THE UGCC". Kwame Nkrumah. Vision and Tragedy. Sub-Saharan Publishers: 52–72. 15 November 2007. doi:10.2307/j.ctvk3gm60.9. ISBN 978-9988-647-81-0. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[Aubynn-1] Aubynn, Anthony Kwesi (2002). "Behind the Transparent Ballot Box: The Significance of the 1990s Elections in Ghana". Multi-Party Elections in Africa. James Currey. p. 77.

[2] Firmin-Sellers, Kathryn (1999). "The Concentration of Authority: Constitutional Creation in the Gold Coast, 1950". Polycentric Governance and Development. University of Michigan Press. p. 191.

[3] "'Allah Might Provide the Fuel': Muslim Sailors in British Colonial Navies, from the Second World War to Independence". Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century: Far from Jihad. Bloomsbury Academic. 2017. doi:10.5040/9781474249454.ch-009. ISBN 978-1-4742-4945-4. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[4] "The Politics of the Independence Movements". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 2024-03-06.

[5] "Nkrumah, Dr Kwame (21 Sept. 1909–27 April 1972)". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u158013. Retrieved 24 August 2020.

[10.2307/j.ctvk3gm60.9-6] "SECRETARY OF THE UGCC". Kwame Nkrumah. Vision and Tragedy. Sub-Saharan Publishers: 52–72. 15 November 2007. doi:10.2307/j.ctvk3gm60.9. ISBN 978-9988-647-81-0. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

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