Positive Action campaign

The Positive Action campaign was a series of anti-imperialist and pro-independence protests and strikes during 1950 in the Gold Coast, a British colony that would later become Ghana. The campaign was marked by a general strike where workers demanded self-governance from the British Empire.

The Positive Action campaign served as an early step in the Ghanaian independence movement. Several of its lead figures, including Ghanaian politician Kwame Nkrumah and senior officials within the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) were jailed by British colonial authorities for their involvement in the campaign.