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Kwame Nkrumah led the Gold Coast to independence, became Ghana's first prime minister and president, and made African unity and rapid development central to his political project.
Six leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention were detained together after the 1948 Accra riots and became known as the Big Six. Meet the men now honoured as Ghana's founding fathers, and the wider movement behind them.