CULTURETECHLENSConvention People's Party
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Combined Graph record U-01473 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-I-0117. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
The Convention People's Party (CPP) is Kwame Nkrumah's Ghanaian political party: on 12 June 1949 Nkrumah announced its formation after breaking from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), adopting the red cockerel as its symbol; the CPP won the February 1951 election (34 of 38 seats) and led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana on 6 March 1957.
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The Convention People's Party (CPP) is Kwame Nkrumah's Ghanaian political party: on 12 June 1949 Nkrumah announced its formation after breaking from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), adopting the red cockerel as its symbol; the CPP won the February 1951 election (34 of 38 seats) and led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana on 6 March 1957.
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- Also known as: CPP
- City: Accra
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- Accra — located in
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- https://ghanaremembers.com/stories/people/kwame-nkrumah-a-biography-of-ghanas-first-president.html (verification source · master store)
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The Convention People's Party (CPP) is Kwame Nkrumah's Ghanaian political party: on 12 June 1949 Nkrumah announced its formation after breaking from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), adopting the red cockerel as its symbol; the CPP won the February 1951 election (34 of 38 seats) and led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana on 6 March 1957.
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