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Events on Monday 4 August 1947 1
1947United Gold Coast Convention foundedNationalist party formed in the Gold CoastThe United Gold Coast Convention was founded on 4 August 1947 to campaign for self-government in the British Gold Coast colony. Kwame Nkrumah became its general secretary later that year. It was the start of the movement that led to Ghana's independence in 1957.