Ghanaian History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Ghana with the correct year: The empire appears to have broken up following the ______ conquest by the Almoravid General Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar.
  2. Complete the sentence about Ghana Empire with the correct year: In ______, the Gold Coast, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah named itself Ghana upon independence.
  3. Complete the sentence about Akan people with the correct year: One of the earliest documented attempts to explain Akan origins was made by Thomas Edward Bowdich, an English traveler who visited the As…
  4. Complete the sentence about Ashanti Empire with the correct year: In ______, the Asante army conquered Denkyira, giving the Asante access to the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean coastal trade wit…
  5. Complete the sentence about Osei Tutu with the correct year: Osei Kofi Tutu Opemsoo was born c. ______ in the town of Kokofu Anyinam, in the Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana.
  6. Complete the sentence about Osei Tutu with the correct year: After a few years in Akwamu, in c. ______ Osei Tutu received news that his uncle, Obiri Yeboa, had been killed during a campaign against Do…
  7. Complete the sentence about Golden Stool with the correct year: In ______, Asantehene Prempeh I was deported rather than risk losing both the war and the throne.
  8. Complete the sentence about Golden Stool with the correct year: In ______, Sir Frederick Hodgson, the Governor of the Gold Coast, demanded to be allowed to sit on the Golden Stool, and ordered that a…
  9. Complete the sentence about Golden Stool with the correct year: In ______, African road workers discovered the stool and stripped some of the gold ornaments.
  10. Complete the sentence about Golden Stool with the correct year: In ______ the stool was used in the ceremony to crown Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II.
  11. Complete the sentence about Prempeh I with the correct year: In ______ Prince Prempeh ascended the throne, using the name Nana Kwaku Dua III.
  12. Complete the sentence about Prempeh I with the correct year: In December ______, the British left Cape Coast with an expeditionary force.
  13. Complete the sentence about Yaa Asantewaa with the correct year: In ______, she led the War of the Golden Stool or the Yaa Asantewaa War against the British Empire.
  14. Complete the sentence about Yaa Asantewaa with the correct year: Yaa Asantewaa was born around ______ in Besease, the daughter of Kwaku Ampoma and Ata Po.
  15. Complete the sentence about Yaa Asantewaa with the correct year: When her brother died in ______, Yaa Asantewaa used her right as Queen Mother to nominate her own grandson as Ejisuhene.
  16. Complete the sentence about War of the Golden Stool with the correct year: After several prior wars with British troops, Ashanti was once again occupied by British troops in January ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about War of the Golden Stool with the correct year: In ______, limited self-determination for the Ashanti was officially regularized in the formal establishment of the Ashanti C…
  18. Complete the sentence about War of the Golden Stool with the correct year: Hodgson advanced toward Kumasi with a small force of British soldiers and local levies, arriving on 25 March ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Ashanti wars with the correct year: Despite initial Ashanti victories, the British ultimately prevailed in the conflicts, resulting in the complete annexation of the…
  20. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Ashanti wars with the correct year: In the Ga–Fante War of ______, the Ashanti sought to aid their Ga allies in a war against the Fante and their British allies.
  21. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Ashanti wars with the correct year: The African Company of Merchants was dissolved in ______ and the British government assumed control of the trading forts on the Go…
  22. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Ashanti wars with the correct year: On 28 February ______, another British mission headed by Joseph Dupuis arrived in Kumasi in an attempt to resolve the "palaver".
  23. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Ashanti wars with the correct year: When John Hope Smith, the governor of the Gold Coast, learned in April ______ of the treaty that Dupuis had signed when he returne…
  24. Complete the sentence about Fante Confederacy with the correct year: Dutch maps from ______ depicted the polity as "Fantijn," situated between Asebu and Agona.
  25. Complete the sentence about Gold Coast with the correct year: In ______, the African Company of Merchants signed a treaty of friendship that recognised Asante claims to sovereignty over large areas of…
  26. Complete the sentence about Gold Coast with the correct year: The British Crown dissolved the company in ______, giving authority over British forts on the Gold Coast to Charles MacCarthy, governor of…
  27. Complete the sentence about Portuguese Gold Coast with the correct year: The colony was officially incorporated into Dutch territory in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Portuguese Gold Coast with the correct year: In ______, Portuguese explorers encountered fishing villages rich with ivory and gold along the Atlantic coast of modern-day Gh…
  29. Complete the sentence about Portuguese Gold Coast with the correct year: In ______, the Dutch West India Company initiated an attack on São Jorge da Mina, which stood as the trading hub for the Portug…
  30. Complete the sentence about Dutch Gold Coast with the correct year: The Dutch began trading in the area around ______, joining the Portuguese which had a trading post there since the late 15th century…
  31. Complete the sentence about Dutch Gold Coast with the correct year: By ______, they had reached the area that was to become known as the Gold Coast because it was an important source of gold.
  32. Complete the sentence about Dutch Gold Coast with the correct year: After Barent Eriksz successfully sailed to the Gold Coast in ______, Dutch merchants began trading in the area.
  33. Complete the sentence about Dutch Gold Coast with the correct year: The States-General were receptive of their demands, and sent Jacob Clantius, who was to become the first General on the Coast, to th…
  34. Complete the sentence about Danish Gold Coast with the correct year: The five Danish forts were sold to the United Kingdom in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Danish Gold Coast with the correct year: A central figure was the Dutch merchant Willem Usselinx, who had played a key role in founding the Dutch West India Company in ____…
  36. Complete the sentence about Danish Gold Coast with the correct year: A renewed Danish effort followed in ______, when Christian IV authorized the brothers Johan and Gédért Braem and their associates t…
  37. Complete the sentence about Aborigines' Rights Protection Society with the correct year: The Gold Coast ARPS was particularly interested in the Pan-African Conference that took place in July ______ in…
  38. Complete the sentence about Aborigines' Rights Protection Society with the correct year: Despite this inability to create their own pan-African conference, the Gold Coast ARPS in ______ participated i…
  39. Complete the sentence about Joseph Boakye Danquah with the correct year: Danquah was described as the "doyen of Gold Coast politics" by the Watson Commission of Inquiry into the ______ Accra riots.
  40. Complete the sentence about Joseph Boakye Danquah with the correct year: On successful completion of his standard seven examinations in ______, he was employed by Vidal J.
  41. Complete the sentence about Joseph Boakye Danquah with the correct year: While he worked on his thesis, he entered the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Joseph Boakye Danquah with the correct year: Danquah went into private legal practice upon his return to Ghana in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about United Gold Coast Convention with the correct year: Danquah, who was the president of the UGCC when it was founded, invited Kwame Nkrumah to become the secretary of the Con…
  44. Complete the sentence about United Gold Coast Convention with the correct year: In March ______, Nkrumah was arrested and detained alongside other leaders of the UGCC.
  45. Complete the sentence about United Gold Coast Convention with the correct year: The party was founded by George Alfred Grant on 4 August ______ by a combination of chiefs, academics and lawyers, inclu…
  46. Complete the sentence about United Gold Coast Convention with the correct year: On 10 December ______, Kwame Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast, accepting Danquah's invitation to become the UGCC Gener…
  47. Complete the sentence about Kwame Nkrumah with the correct year: In ______, Ghanaians approved a new constitution and elected Nkrumah as president.
  48. Complete the sentence about Kwame Nkrumah with the correct year: In ______, a constitutional amendment made Ghana a one-party state, with Nkrumah as president for life of both the nation and its party…
  49. Complete the sentence about Kwame Nkrumah with the correct year: Nkrumah was deposed in ______ in a coup d'état by the National Liberation Council.
  50. Complete the sentence about Convention People's Party with the correct year: Together with George Padmore and others he had organised in ______ the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, England.
  51. Complete the sentence about Pan-Africanism with the correct year: In London, the Sons of Africa was a political group addressed by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano in the ______ edition of his book Thoughts and…
  52. Complete the sentence about Pan-Africanism with the correct year: The Pan-African Congress series of meetings followed ______'s First Pan-African Conference that was held in London.
  53. Complete the sentence about Pan-Africanism with the correct year: With the independence of Ghana in March ______, Kwame Nkrumah was elected as the first Prime Minister and President of the State.
  54. Complete the sentence about Organisation of African Unity with the correct year: Recognising this, in September ______ the OAU issued the Sirte Declaration, calling for a new body to take its place.
  55. Complete the sentence about Kofi Abrefa Busia with the correct year: In ______ he was elected by the Ashanti Confederacy to the Legislative Council.
  56. Complete the sentence about Kofi Abrefa Busia with the correct year: In ______, Busia became a professor of Sociology and Culture of Africa at the University of Leiden near the Hague, Netherlands.
  57. Complete the sentence about Kofi Abrefa Busia with the correct year: In ______/68, Busia served as the Chairman of the Centre for Civic Education.
  58. Complete the sentence about Fred Akuffo with the correct year: On 9 October ______ Fred Akuffo was appointed a member of the ruling Supreme Military Council government due to his position as Ghana's a…
  59. Complete the sentence about Jerry Rawlings with the correct year: Rawlings came to power in Ghana as a flight lieutenant of the Ghana Air Force following a coup d'état in ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Jerry Rawlings with the correct year: Rawlings brokered a ceasefire in ______ during the First Liberian Civil War.
  61. Complete the sentence about Jerry Rawlings with the correct year: Rawlings finished his secondary education at Achimota College in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Hilla Limann with the correct year: Limann completed his basic school education at the Government Middle School, Tamale, in ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Hilla Limann with the correct year: In ______, he became the head of Chancery/Official Secretary at the Ghana embassy in Lomé, Togo.
  64. Complete the sentence about John Kufuor with the correct year: In ______, he became chief legal officer and town clerk for the city of Kumasi.
  65. Complete the sentence about John Kufuor with the correct year: By ______, he was a member of Parliament and deputy foreign minister in the government of Kofi Abrefa Busia.
  66. Complete the sentence about John Atta Mills with the correct year: Mills was born on 21 July ______ in Tarkwa, in the Western Region of Ghana.
  67. Complete the sentence about John Atta Mills with the correct year: In ______, he was selected for the Fulbright Scholar programme at Stanford Law School in the US.
  68. Complete the sentence about John Mahama with the correct year: Mahama took office as president when Mills died in office on 24 July ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Ghana with the correct year: Since its independence in ______, Ghana has undergone several major changes in both the type of government and the democratic g…
  70. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Ghana with the correct year: Ghana was first declared a republic in ______ under the premiership of Kwame Nkrumah.
  71. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Ghana with the correct year: The Fourth Republic's first government was officially sworn in on January 7, ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Ghana with the correct year: Ghana's Second Republic Constitution was drafted in January ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Ghana with the correct year: Legislative representation in Ghana dates back to ______, when the country was a British colony known as Gold Coast.
  74. Complete the sentence about President of Ghana with the correct year: Ghana became a republic within the Commonwealth under the Constitution of ______ and the monarch and governor-general were replace…
  75. Complete the sentence about President of Ghana with the correct year: Civilian rule was restored in ______, with the establishment of the Second Republic.
  76. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Ghana with the correct year: Ghana's ______ constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary from the legislative and the executive…
  77. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Ghana with the correct year: Until ______, there was a right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, England.
  78. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Ghana with the correct year: The ______ constitution stipulates that the Supreme Court is made up of the Chief Justice of Ghana and not less than nine othe…
  79. Complete the sentence about Electoral Commission of Ghana with the correct year: The Minister for Local Government was responsible for conducting elections during the First Republic until ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Electoral Commission of Ghana with the correct year: Following the 24 February coup in ______ which overthrew Kwame Nkrumah's CPP government a committee for electoral refor…
  81. Complete the sentence about Electoral Commission of Ghana with the correct year: The Interim Commission conducted the ______ Ghanaian parliamentary election.
  82. Complete the sentence about Politics of Ghana with the correct year: Prior to its democratic transition in ______, Ghana had one-party rule and military rule.
  83. Complete the sentence about Politics of Ghana with the correct year: The foundations of Ghanaian democracy are rooted in the ______ Constitution which established an independent Electoral Commission a…
  84. Complete the sentence about Politics of Ghana with the correct year: On 11 May ______, Nana Akufo-Addo nominated Sophia Abena Boafoa Akuffo the Chief Justice of Ghana to replace Georgina Wood.
  85. Complete the sentence about Regions of Ghana with the correct year: A referendum on the creation of six new regions was held on 27 December ______, where all proposed new regions were approved.
  86. Complete the sentence about Regions of Ghana with the correct year: At independence in March ______, the Northern Territories, Ashanti, Trans-Volta Togoland and the Gold Coast came together to form Gh…
  87. Complete the sentence about Regions of Ghana with the correct year: On the day Ghana became a republic, 1 July ______, the Northern Region got split into the Northern and Upper regions raising the num…
  88. Complete the sentence about Regions of Ghana with the correct year: In ______, Sekondi and Takoradi were merged to form Sekondi-Takoradi, the new capital of the Western Region.
  89. Complete the sentence about Regions of Ghana with the correct year: In the following year ______, the Upper Region was divided into the Upper East Region and Upper West Region, bringing the total numb…
  90. Complete the sentence about Districts of Ghana with the correct year: In February ______, there were more districts created and some were upgraded to municipal status.
  91. Complete the sentence about Districts of Ghana with the correct year: The Ahafo Region of Ghana was created by a referendum in December ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about National Democratic Congress with the correct year: The National Democratic Congress was founded by Jerry Rawlings, who had been the military leader of Ghana since ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about New Patriotic Party with the correct year: At the elections held on 7 December ______, the party won 129 out of 230 seats.
  94. Complete the sentence about New Patriotic Party with the correct year: The New Patriotic Party wrote a book titled Stolen Verdict to register its protest against the ______ presidential election.
  95. Complete the sentence about Kofi Annan with the correct year: Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the ______ Nobel Peace Prize.
  96. Complete the sentence about Kofi Annan with the correct year: Annan joined the United Nations in ______, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office.
  97. Complete the sentence about Economic Community of West African States with the correct year: The union was established on 28 May ______, with the signing of the Treaty of Lagos, with its stated missio…
  98. Complete the sentence about Economic Community of West African States with the correct year: A revised version of the treaty was agreed and signed on 24 July ______ in Cotonou, the largest city in Ben…
  99. Complete the sentence about Ghana Armed Forces with the correct year: Major General Stephen Otu was appointed Chief of Defence Staff in September ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Ghana Armed Forces with the correct year: From ______, the Armed Forces were extensively involved in politics, mounting several coups.

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