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Convention People's Party

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Convention People's Party

Apam Nkorɔfo Kuw
AbbreviationCPP
ChairmanNana Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong-Kumankumah
General SecretaryNana Yaa Jantuah
FounderKwame Nkrumah
Founded12 June 1949. Banned 1966.
Refounded 29 January 1996.
Split fromUnited Gold Coast Convention
HeadquartersHouse No. 64, Mango Tree Avenue, Asylum Down, Accra, Ghana
Youth wingConvention People's Party National Youth League
Political orientationCommunism
Nkrumahism
Scientific Socialism
Black Nationalism
Anti-Imperialism


The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a scientific socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC). The CPP was the driving force in Ghana's independence movement and under in the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, they succeeded in turning Ghana into the first African nation south of the Sahara to achieve independence. After the foreign backed overthrow of the CPP government in 1966, the party was abolished and its supporters were cracked down on by a series of military and civilian regimes during the second and third Ghanaian republics. Under the fourth republic following the restoration of civilian rule under President Rawlings, the CPP was re-established.