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Sunday, 6 March 2016
59th anniversary of restoration-of-independence in Ghana
6 March 1957: Restoration of independence of the peoples – terminating 90 years of the British conquest and occupation of Ghana with the triumph of the freedom movement begun in the 1940s and led by Kwame Nkrumah, political theorist and philosopher
(Jackie McLean Sextet, “Appointment in Ghana” [personnel: McLean, alto saxophone; Blue Mitchell, trumpet; Tina Brooks, tenor saxophone; Kenny Drew, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Art Taylor, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 1 September 1960])
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