african independence

between the tow world wars an educated middle class have been developed in some African cities. leading young African men to go abroad for better opportunities after they graduated. they were influence by African Americans such as blaise diagne, the men who organized the pan African congress. however west Indians and French speaking Africans began to develop pride in traditional Africa. and organized the negritude movement. this is movement that to celebrate African culture and values, this made African culture look very unique. the leader of this movement was called Leopold senghord. the African soldiers who fought along side Europeans to gain independence started to disagree with colonial domination, they wanted a free Africa. the first colony to gain independence after this was the gold coast south colony to Sahara in 1957. Kwame Nkrumah was the one to free this colony. to achieve this he made non - violence protest to help gain the independence. he did boycotts strikes in fact helpful tactics to climb all the way to freedom, and was very successful. after he free the nation the nation was name Ghana. in 1958 Kwame Nkrumah organized a pan african, which later led to the organization of African unitity in 1963. afterward ghana became a very powerful nation and in 2000 the first elections were held. this is how a nation can gain the independence the right way, through good non violence behavior.