On February 24, 1966, Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, was overthrown in a military coup while he was visiting Beijing; he was replaced by Joseph Arthur Ankrah.
Following the military revolt in Ghana and the fall of President Nkrumah, Movietone recalls the rise to power of Kwame Nkrumah. The dictatorship that was to embarrass the Commonwealth and provoke the recent revolt.
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