Of particular note is Ghana, originally called Gold Coast. The first president and prime minister is Kwame Nkrumah, and he's known as one of the founders of the Organization of African Unity. And he wanted to see a world where as these African countries became independent, they unified, seeing that Africa would have much more power as a unified entity than as a fragmented one. And so he was a major promoter of the idea of Pan-Africanism. Now, the independence movements only accelerated as we go into the 1960s. 1960 in particular was a year of many independence movements, but you can see here most of Africa was independent as we exit the 1960s. In blue here listed the French colonies that gained independence in this time period.