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Republics, Coups, and Economic Change

Ghana became independent in 1957 and a republic in 1960. Six years later, soldiers and police removed Nkrumah's government. Over the next decades, civilian administrations and military regimes alternated as leaders confronted debt, political conflict and competing ideas about national development.

Why did constitutional government repeatedly break down after independence?

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