From “The history of Ghana” – Roger S. Gocking - ISBN 0-313-31894-8.

It seemed as if the President's Own Guard Regiment (POGR) was going to succeed the regular military, which was suspect and being starved for funds. Nkrumah became a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent strategy of Satyagraha, which he coined as “Positive Action.” “Positive action has already achieved remarkable success in the liberation struggle of our continent and I feel sure that it can further save us from the perils of this atomic arrogance. This defiance continues in spite of the murder of unarmed men, women, and children by the South African Government. Eventually, under pressure from other OAU members, Ghana was forced to break diplomatic relations with Great Britain. Additional reading: In the following chapters we shall see just how much his countrymen continue to "render homage" to his "immortal memory," even to the point that his weakness and failures have been largely forgotten.81 Ghana pioneered the road to independence for much of Africa. He indicated that he would be prepared if need be to resort a non-violent Positive Action campaign-his version of satyagraha-‘in an effort to coerce the British government into granting a greater measure of self-government’.If Nkrumah was successful, he owed part of his formation, directly or indirectly to Mahatma Gandhi. The explosion of an atomic device in the Sahara by the French Government and the wanton massacre in the Union of South Africa of our brothers and sisters who were engaged in peaceful demonstrations against humiliating and repulsive laws of the South African Government are two eloquent events in this climax, a climax which is a sign post to the beginning of the end of foreign supremacy and domination in Africa.”“Positive action achieved remarkable success in the liberation struggle of African continent and I feel sure that it can further save us from the perils of this atomic arrogance.
Nkrumah's violent removal from office also unfortunately brought Ghana into line with what was emerging as the dominant trend in much of the continent—the military intervention into politics.

At the conference, Gandhi’s satyagraha methods were discussed and “endorsed as the only effective means of making alien rulers respect the wishes of an unarmed subject people”.The United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) was the first mass political party formed in the Gold Coast to spearhead agitations for independence. The “caps of the Indian struggle” had themselves originated in the prison dress to which Gandhi and his companions had been familiarised in South Africa.Much like Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent strategies, positive action employed the tactics of protest and strike against colonial administration. The prisons emptied of Nkrumah's detainees and began to fill with new political prisoners. Like Gandhi, he was outraged by the indignities and acts of discrimination perpetrated against his compatriots on racial grounds, and began to formulate plans for the overthrow of colonial rule in Africa as a means of restoring human dignity, freedom and self-respect to the black man.

The first conference of independent African states was organised in Accra in April 1958. KWAME NKRUMAH: that unequalled extraordinary irreplaceable gem of an African that we yearn for now but can never find again. “Nkrumah’s declaration of Positive Action on January 8, 1950 was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent revolution in India. The UGCC which initially started as a social group of mostly the merchants and educated elite was formed at Saltpond in August 1947.
There was even a small sartorial symbolism that underlined a symbiotic connection: “CPP members out of prison sported P.G. We are sure that the will of the majority will ultimately prevail, for no government can continue to impose its rule in face of the conscious defiance of the overwhelming masses of its people. The bad blood between the leaders of the two parties manifested in The Evening News attacks on the leaders of the UGCC, especially Dr Danquah, in the form of allegations of bribe-taking and other dubious practices against the leadership of the UGCC, worsening, thereby, the relationship between the two parties.Beginning in April 1949, there was considerable pressure on Nkrumah from his supporters to leave the UGCC and form his own party. Ghana also remained a member of the Commonwealth, but in 1965, when the white Rhodesians unilaterally declared themselves independent from Great Britain, this link to the West also began to weaken.