1960 Ghanaian constitutional referendum information

A constitutional referendum was held in Ghana on 27 April 1960. The main issue was a change in the country's status from a constitutional monarchy with...

Listowel (24 June 1957 – 1 July 1960) Following the creation of a republic by the 1960 Ghanaian constitutional referendum, Nkrumah won the presidential...

1975 Constitutional referendum". EISA. Retrieved 20 January 2020. "Article 2, Section 1". Constitution of the Mongolian People's Republic. 6 July 1960. "The...

series The Crown. Queen Elizabeth II on Ghanaian Independence Issue stamps Ghanaian constitutional referendum, 1960 Ghana Empire "After Independence". Judicial...

and 1979. On April 28, 1992, a referendum was launched that approved the 1992 Constitution forming the current Ghanaian Fourth Republic. The 1992 Constitution...

political crisis in Estonia as two constitutional reforms had been rejected by the electorate and only the third referendum in 1933 succeeded in replacing...

pre-independence 1956 legislative elections; Nkrumah's victory in the 1960 constitutional referendum was taken by the President and his party as a fresh mandate...

position when Ghana declared independence from Britain in 1957. In 1960, Ghanaians approved a new constitution and elected Nkrumah President. His administration...

dates back to this unification. On 1 July 1960, following the Ghanaian constitutional referendum and Ghanaian presidential election, Nkrumah declared Ghana...

as the 1st President of Ghana in 1960. The government of Kwame Nkrumah won the approval of a constitutional referendum in 1964, that made Ghana a One-party...

design of the Ghanaian flag influenced the designs of the flags of Guinea-Bissau (1973) and São Tomé and Príncipe (1975). The Ghanaian flag was designed...

for another five years. A one-party state was introduced following a referendum in 1964. As a result, only CPP candidates stood in the National Assembly...

Arden-Clarke. Ghana remained a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy until 1960, when after a national referendum, Ghana was declared a Republic...

in 1957 and had ruled the country approximately 13 years. Thousands of Ghanaians attended the funeral to bury the president. Nkurumah disappeared in public...

Westminster which was followed by transformation into a republic after the 1960 referendum. Afterwards, South Africa was under apartheid until elections resulting...

The National Liberation Council (NLC) led the Ghanaian government from 24 February 1966 to 1 October 1969. The body emerged from a coup d'état against...

Ghana, in December 1958. At this international conference, hosted by Ghanaian president, Kwame Nkrumah, Lumumba further solidified his pan-Africanist...

Rawlings (22 June 1947 – 12 November 2020, also known as Junior Jesus) was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator and politician who led the country for a brief...

Lieutenant General Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa (24 April 1936 – 26 June 1979) was a Ghanaian soldier, farmer, traditional ruler and politician. He was the head of state...

1960 is referred to as the Year of Africa because of a series of events that took place during the year—mainly the independence of seventeen African nations—that...

supervise a national referendum that would settle the split in the government. On 11 October Kasa-Vubu issued a "constitutional decree-law" officiating...

Congo to Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was ratified in a constitutional referendum in June 1964 and Parliament was dissolved to await new elections...

leaders, and their contributions became recognized under the rural basis of Ghanaian socialism. Nonetheless, women who were not granted land often had to beg...

several attempts to reform the apartheid system, beginning with the Constitutional Referendum of 1983. This introduced the Tricameral Parliament, which allowed...

and Indians into central government. In 1982, final constitutional proposals produced a referendum among Whites, and the Tricameral Parliament was approved...