The Progress Party (PP) was the ruling party in Ghana during the Second Republic (1969–1972). In the 29 August 1969 elections , the PP won 105 of the National Assembly's 140 seats.
17-621: The Ghana Congress Party was founded in May 1952 by Kofi Busia who also its leader. The party was formed by dissatisfied former Convention People's Party members, along with the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and the National Democratic Party , which had both suffered poor performances in the 1951 elections , and soon dissolved. The party contested the 1954 election , winning one out of 104 seats. The party represented
34-468: A Ghanaian political leader and academic who was Prime Minister of Ghana from 1969 to 1972. As a leader and prime minister, he helped to restore civilian government to the country following military rule. Busia was born a Bono prince in the traditional kingdom of Wenchi , in the Brong Ahafo Region, one of the four Gold Coast Territories, then under British rule and now called Ghana. He
51-764: The 1972 military junta banned the Progress Party in Ghana, both Busia and Williams lost their citizenship in Ghana and remained in exile in England. Busia returned to Oxford University , where he died from a heart attack in August 1978. Sylvester Kofi Williams remained in exile in England for only a year before he was sent on mission by the Commonwealth Secretariat to serve as the Chief Parliamentary Draftsman of
68-708: The Danquah-Busia-Dombo mantle in the Fourth Republic. Progress Party (Ghana) The party was co-founded in 1969 by Kofi Abrefa Busia, who was born as a Bono prince in the traditional kingdom of Wenchi , and by Lawyer Sylvester Kofi Williams, who was born as an Ahanta prince, and a descendant of the Ahanta King Badu Bonsu II . Kofi Abrefa Busia led the Party, and became the 2nd Prime Minister on 3 September 1969. Sylvester Kofi Williams, served as
85-496: The Ghana cedi, the mass deportation of Africans from other African countries living in Ghana and an endorsement of the apartheid government of South Africa. After his contract with the UNDP came to an end on 31 December 1991, Sylvester Kofi Williams was tragically assassinated by multiple gun shots in Lusaka, when he traveled from Harare to Zambia to enact part of his final separation duties with
102-548: The NLC lifted the ban on politics, Busia, together with Lawyer Sylvester Kofi Williams and friends in the defunct UP formed the Progress Party (PP). In 1969, the PP won the parliamentary elections with 105 of the 140 seats. This paved the way for him to become the next prime minister. In this role, Busia was effectively Ghana's chief executive. Due to memories of Nkrumah's authoritarian rule,
119-761: The Republic of Zambia, from 1973 - 1984. During his mission in Zambia, Williams participated in the 1979 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Lusaka, that laid the foundation for the dismantling of the Ian Smith regime in Southern Rhodesia, which resulted in the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement at Lancaster House in the United Kingdom. In recognition of his contribution to the 1979 CHOGM conference and
136-621: The coming of Independence to the new Southern African nation of Zimbabwe, he was contracted by the United Nations Development Programme to co-write the post Independence Constitution of Zimbabwe and served as the Senior Legal Advisor to the Zimbabwean Government led by President Canaan Banana and Robert Mugabe from 1984 until 1991. The PP's rule was characterised by rising inflation, a mass depreciation of
153-571: The conservative position of the chiefs and intelligentsia who were dominant in the UGCC. After the Gold Coast legislative election in 1954, Busia and others went on to join the National Liberation Movement . This article about a political party in Ghana is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kofi Busia Kofi Abrefa Busia (11 July 1913 – 28 August 1978) was
170-466: The country opted for a parliamentary system with the president effectively reduced to a figurehead. Real power was vested in the Prime Minister. Busia continued with NLC's anti-Nkrumaist stance and adopted a liberalised economic system. There was a mass deportation of half a million Nigerian citizens from Ghana, and a 44 percent devaluation of the cedi in 1971, which met with a lot of resistance from
187-652: The other opposition parties to form the United Party (UP). As leader of the opposition against Kwame Nkrumah , he fled the country on the grounds that his life was under threat. In 1959, Busia became a Professor of Sociology and Culture of Africa at the University of Leiden near the Hague , Netherlands. From 1962 until 1969, he was a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford . He returned to Ghana in March 1966, after Nkrumah's government
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#1733084809426204-553: The public. He declared support for apartheid South Africa's white minority government. While he was in Britain for a medical check-up, the army under Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong overthrew his government on 13 January 1972. Busia remained in exile in England and returned to Oxford University , where he died from a heart attack in August 1978. Busia's name is associated with Ghana's political right, along with J. B. Danquah and S. D. Dombo . The New Patriotic Party has claimed
221-417: The ruling Party's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, in Ghana's 2nd republic, quasi civilian government. The PP declared support for apartheid South Africa's white minority government. On 13 January 1972, the Progress Party government led by Busia was overthrown through a bloodless military coup led by Colonel Acheampong . The party together with all other political parties were banned. After
238-724: Was a Fulbright scholar in 1954. Busia served as a district commissioner from 1942 to 1949, and was appointed first lecturer in African Studies . He became the first African to occupy a chair at the University College of the Gold Coast (now the University of Ghana ). In 1951 he was elected by the Ashanti Confederacy to the Legislative Council. In 1952, he was Leader of Ghana Congress Party , which later merged with
255-489: Was educated at Methodist School, Wenchi, Mfantsipim School , Cape Coast , then at Wesley College, Kumasi , from 1931 to 1932. He taught at Wesley College and left to study at Achimota College in 1935 and taught there. He gained his first degree with Honours in Medieval and Modern History from the University of London , through correspondence during this period. He then went on to study at University College, Oxford , where he
272-740: Was overthrown by the military, to serve on the National Liberation Council (NLC) of General Joseph Ankrah , the military head of state; and was appointed as the Chairman of the National Advisory Committee of the NLC. In 1967/68, Busia served as the Chairman of the Centre for Civic Education. He used this opportunity to promote himself as the next leader. He also was a Member of the Constitutional Review Committee. When
289-540: Was the college's first African student. He returned to the Gold Coast in 1942. He took a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (1941, MA 1946) and a DPhil in Social Anthropology in 1947 at Nuffield College, Oxford , with a thesis entitled "The position of the chief in the modern political system of Ashanti: a study of the influence of contemporary social changes on Ashanti political institutions". He
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