United Gold Coast Convention

when he went to america aside him learning he was also like um learning about african politics and he didn't really like the political states of africa because that time they were still colonial masters the british were ruling good coast at that time and the other europeans were really some parts of the of africa So he was like, ah, what is this? So after his education in the United States, he came back to Ghana.

And then he came to join the UGCC.

Back in junior high and social studies, he learned that thing, UGCC.

He came to join them.

And UGCC, their goal was to help free our ass from the colonial masters but UGCC was more of like a patience group they wanted it to be more of advocacy and then what's the word more of like gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen things But Kwame Nkrumah was so fixated on gaining independence for Ghana that he was like, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, how do we do?

So he had a fallout with the UGC.

Because he had other plans.

He wanted to gain independence fast, fast.

Who exactly made up this influential group?

The Big Six were the leadership of the United Gold Coast Convention, or UGCC, a party founded in 1947 with the slogan, "Self-government within the shortest possible time." They included Dr.

J.B. Danquah, a legal scholar and lawyer; Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, who introduced Kwame Nkrumah to the movement; and Kwame Nkrumah himself, who was serving as the general secretary at the time.

Also among them were Edward Akufo Addo, a prominent lawyer; Obetsebi Lamptey, a journalist and activist; and Kofi Abrefa Busia, an academic and theologian.

The arrest of the Big Six, including J.B. Danquah, Edward Akuffo Addo, and others, turned the crisis into a political movement.

Among those arrested was a young secretary named Kwame Nkrumah, who was working for the United Gold Coast Convention, or UGCC.

He was watching from prison cells, realizing that petitions wouldn't work anymore.

Nkrumah had joined the UGCC because he believed in gradual change through constitutional means.

How the attempt they made to put all our lands under the Queen of England then, and how the Ghanaians fought to, to kind of, uh, how they fought those kind of evil systems.

Uh, and then the struggle, how Ghanaians, uh, a Sierra Leonean called Robyfors, Robyfor, uh, Wal- Wallace Johnson came to introduce multi-- uh, what do you call it? Political party system to the Gold Coast, now Ghana, and how we formed our first ever political party called the United Gold Coast Convention.

Yeah.

I, I love that thought right there.