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Convention People's Party Apam Nkorɔfo Kuw (Akan) | |
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| Leader | Nana Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong-Kumankumah (Disputed as of December 2023) National Executive Committee Interim Leadership (Disputed as of December 2023) |
| Chairman | Nana Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong-Kumankumah (Disputed as of December 2023) |
| General Secretary | Nana Yaa Jantuah (Resigned in 2023) |
| Founder | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Founded | 12 June 1949. Banned 1966. Refounded 29 January 1996. |
| Split from | United Gold Coast Convention |
| Headquarters | House No. 64, Mango Tree Avenue, Asylum Down, Accra, Ghana |
| Youth wing | Convention People's Party Youth League |
| Ideology | Nkrumaism Pan-Africanism African socialism African nationalism Left-wing nationalism Scientific socialism Anti-colonialism Anti-imperialism |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| International affiliation | Socialist International (consultative) |
| Colors | Red, white and green |
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| Parliament | 0 / 275 |
| Pan-African Parliament | 0 / 5 |
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| Red cockerel on a white background | |
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The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah.[1][2] The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC).[3][4][5]
- ^ Rathbone, Richard (23 September 2004). "Nkrumah, Kwame (1909?–1972), president of Ghana". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31504. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Ghana Embassy to The Holy See - History". www.ghanaembassyholysee.it. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
- ^ Rooney, David (15 November 2007). "Secretary of the UGCC". Kwame Nkrumah. Vision and Tragedy. Sub-Saharan Publishers. pp. 52–72. doi:10.2307/j.ctvk3gm60.9. ISBN 978-9988-647-81-0.
- ^ Rooney (2007). "Birth of the CPP". Kwame Nkrumah. Vision and Tragedy. pp. 74–90.
- ^ Nkrumah, Kwame (4 February 2016). "Independence Speech". The Ghana Reader. Duke University Press. pp. 301–302. doi:10.2307/j.ctv125jqp2.65. ISBN 978-0-8223-7496-1.