Togoland Congress
The Togoland Congress ( TC) was a political party in Ghana during the period of independence process were by the end of 1958. During the elections to the Legislative National Assembly ( Legislative Assembley ) for election on June 15, 1954 and also on 17 July 1956 by Togoland Congress each two of the 104 seats of the National Assembly won.
Founding and goals of the TC
The Togoland Congress was founded as a merger of various restorative forces in today's Volta region partly since the early forties existing groupings in 1951. Groupings, which were merged into the Togoland Congress include the Togoland Union ( founded in 1943 ), Togoland Youth Conference and the United Nations Association of Togoland. Chairman was S. G. Antor.
In the area of present-day Ghana and Togo is still today the settlement area of the Ewe. Consequently, this ethnic group was divided into two different former colonial territories. The British Gold Coast colony was on the territory of modern Ghana, in what is now Togo was under French administration an entirely separate from the Gold Coast colony. Thus, representatives of the Ewe nation faced with the looming problem of a people in two states. The Togoland Congress pursued the goal of a state was founded as part of a three- state solution. The Ewe should receive from the perspective of the Togoland Congress its own territory in their original area of settlement in the border area between present-day Ghana and Togo.
The Togoland Congress was thus against the parties Anlo Youth Association and Convention People's Party of Kwame Nkrumah, who sought a connection to the Gold Coast with the British Trust Territory. Other voices feared a predominance of the ethnic group of the Anlo Ewe within and just wanted a two-state solution to separate the Anlo of the other groups of the Ewe.
After independence in 1957
Soon after the independence of Ghana on March 6, 1957, a law to prevent discrimination ( avoidence of Discrimination Act 1957, CA 38 ) was adopted to operate the then Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and later president of Ghana. This law prohibiting any group with an orientation based on ethnic, religious, regional or similar purposes with effect from 31 December 1957.
The full title of the Act was:
Law on the Prohibition of organizations that use propaganda to belonging to a tribe, a region, a race or a religion or use to the detriment of a community or to the election of persons because of their membership in a tribe, region or religion or similar securing purposes. (English: An Act to prohibit Organizations using or engaging in tribal, regional, racial and religious propaganda of to the detriment of any community, or Securing the election of persons on account of Their tribal, regional or religious affiliations and for other purpuse connected there with. )
The Togoland Congress was due to the significant by a reference to a region under the law and has been virtually overnight in an illegal group, although she was represented in Parliament since your election in 1954. Affected parties included the Muslim Association Party (MAP), Anlo Youth Association ( AYA ), Northern Peoples' Party and other organizations as well as Ga Shifimo Kpee.
TC - United Party
To go to a party ban out of the way, various parties joined together early in 1958 to the United Party (Ghana). The UP was composed of the following parties and groups:
- National Liberation Movement (NLM )
- Anlo Youth Association ( AYA )
- Togoland Congress ( TC)
- Northern Peoples' Party
- Muslim Association Party
- Ga Shifimo Kpee
With the establishment of the UP officially no longer existed the Togoland Congress. In addition to the successor party to the United Party was in Ghana, only the party Nkrumah, the Convention People's Party (CPP ) from 1958.