Anti-apartheid activism in Ghana’s universities, 1960s–1980s

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Abstract This article is an account of student anti-apartheid activism in Ghana’s universities from the 1960s to the 1980s. Through various organizations, associations, public statements, demonstrations and campus journalism, Ghanaian student activists expressed opposition to apartheid and solidarity with the struggle against it in South Africa. Animated by pan-Africanism, anti-colonialism and a general internationalism, anti-apartheid activism as well as support for liberation movements in southern Africa was a significant plank in Ghanaian student politics in that period.