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| 1952 |
| | Kwame Nkrumah, recently released from gaol, becomes prime minister of the British colony of the Gold Coast | |
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| 1955 |
| | Nasser alarms the west by buying eastern-bloc arms through Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1956 |
| | After a plebiscite British Togo is merged with the neighbouring colony of the Gold Coast | |
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| 1957 |
| | Kwame Nkrumah leads the Gold Coast into independence under a name of historic resonance, Ghana | |
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| 1958 |
| | Egypt and Syria merge as the United Arab Republic (but disengage three years later) | |
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| 1958 |
| | Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London | |
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| 1958 |
| | The colony of French Guinea opts for immediate independence as the republic of Guinea, breaking its links with France | |
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| 1958 |
| | Sekou Touré, the first president of Guinea, settles in for twenty-six years of dictatorial rule | |
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| 1960 |
| | French Togo becomes independent as the republic of Togo, with Sylvanus Olympio as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | French Sudan becomes independent as the republic of Mali, with Modibo Keita as president | |
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