Choose an African nation that became independent in the 1950s or 1960s. Topic country chosen below. Country Name: GhanaIndependence: 6 March 1957Colony Name: Gold CoastColonial Ruler: Britain Write an

Choose an African nation that became independent in the 1950s or 1960s. Topic country chosen below.

Country Name: Ghana

Independence: 6 March 1957

Colony Name: Gold Coast

Colonial Ruler: Britain 

Write an essay in which you take a first-person perspective and explain what the nation was experiencing on the day independence was achieved and on a day 25 years later. Describe the situation in your chosen country as it evolved over those years in your own words. Consider economic, political, and social issues, as well as foreign affairs, and provide justified and academically referenced and cited examples to tell the story. Attached and cited below.

To complete this assignment, use a minimum of two reputable sources, cited and referenced, and only one of which may be the textbook or a source provided in the required or suggested reading.

Brower, D., Sanders, T. (2014). The World In The Twentieth Century From Empires To Nations (7th Ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Norton, Graham Gendall. "Ghana's Golden Coast: this West African state was a focus of the slave trade for centuries, and the first African colony to win independence, exactly fifty years ago. Graham Gendall Norton finds lots of history to explore." History Today, Mar. 2007, p. 18+. World History Collection, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A171657316/PPWH?u=waldorfcoll&sid=PPWH&xid=aa1c9405. Accessed 8 Mar. 2018.