Today in History
Aug 01, 2016
An assassination attempt is made on first Ghanaian President, Kwame Nkrumah
Wednesday, 1 August 1962
An assassination attempt was made on first Ghana President, Kwame Nkrumah. The bomb, intended to eliminate Nkrumah, exploded and killed four people, scores of whom were left injured. Four years before this incident, Nkrumah passed the Preventative Detention Act which he used to imprison more than 1000 of his political and social opponents. This was not the first attempt to kill Nkrumah, who had led Ghana to independence in 1957.
Source
South African History Online