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Nationalism and Empire in the 1950s

It is not difficult to see the 1950s as a period in which the gradual disintegration of British imperial power accelerated sharply in the face of the challenge of Afro-Asian nationalism. In West Africa, the British conceded full independence to the Gold Coast (as Ghana) in 1957 and set in motion a timetable for Nigerian independence three years later. The Sudan became independent in 1956. Elsewhere in Africa the British steadily enlarged the participation of Africans in colonial government. In South East Asia, Malaya too became independent in 1957. In Cyprus the British grappled with EOKA terr…