Accra in the Space Age
The atlas holds 14 people and 27 moments here, from 1957 to 2020. The most recorded lives are John Atta Mills, Jerry Rawlings and Kwame Nkrumah.
Notable people
Edgar Lungu
in 2017
1 moment here
Edgar Chagwa Lungu was a Zambian lawyer and politician who served as Zambia's sixth president from 2015 to 2021.…
Elizabeth II
in 1961
1 moment here
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death.…
Gamal Abdel Nasser
in 1965
1 moment here
Egyptian army officer, leader of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, and president of Egypt from 1954 until his death.…
Jerry Rawlings
from 1967 to 2020
5 moments here
Jerry John Rawlings was a Ghanaian Air Force officer and politician who led Ghana in 1979 and from 1981 to 2001, first as military ruler and later as…
John Atta Mills
from 1963 to 2012
7 moments here
John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills was a Ghanaian legal scholar and politician who served as vice president of Ghana from 1997 to 2001 and president from 7…
Kenneth Kaunda
in 1958
1 moment here
Zambian teacher, nationalist leader, and first president of independent Zambia, serving from 1964 to 1991.…
Kofi Annan
in 1974
1 moment here
Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.…
Kwame Nkrumah
from 1957 to 1965
2 moments here
Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Martin Luther King Jr.
in 1957
1 moment here
American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…
Maya Angelou
in 1962
2 moments here
American memoirist, poet, performer, educator, and civil-rights activist. Her documented life moved from Missouri and Arkansas to California and New…
Muammar Gaddafi
in 2007
1 moment here
Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from the 1969 coup until his overthrow and killing during…
Muhammadu Buhari
in 2015
1 moment here
Nigerian army officer, military head of state from 1983 to 1985, and elected president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.…
Patrice Lumumba
from 1958 to 1960
2 moments here
Congolese independence leader and first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo. Lumumba worked in Stanleyville, led the Mouvement National…
Pranab Mukherjee
in 2016
1 moment here
Indian politician and statesman who served as the 13th President of India from 25 July 2012 to 25 July 2017.…
Moments
- 1957 Independence proclamation in Accra Kwame Nkrumah
- 1957 Witnesses Ghanaian independence Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1958 All-African Peoples’ Conference Kenneth Kaunda
- 1958 All-African Peoples' Conference Patrice Lumumba
- 1960 Agreement with Nkrumah Patrice Lumumba
- 1961 Visited Ghana despite security fears Elizabeth II
- 1962 Accra expatriate and university work Maya Angelou
- 1962 Move to Accra Maya Angelou
- 1963 Achimota School completion John Atta Mills
- 1965 Organisation of African Unity summit Kwame Nkrumah
- 1965 Second OAU Summit Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1967 Completed secondary school Jerry Rawlings
- 1967 Law degree at Legon John Atta Mills
- 1974 Manager at Ghana Tourist Development Company Kofi Annan
- 1979 Failed uprising at Air Force Station Jerry Rawlings
- 1979 Released during the June 4 uprising Jerry Rawlings
- 1998 Meeting with President Clinton Jerry Rawlings
- 2007 African Union summit in Accra Muammar Gaddafi
- 2009 Presidential inauguration John Atta Mills
- 2009 Meeting with Barack Obama in Accra John Atta Mills
- 2009 Obama departure ceremony at Kotoka International Airport John Atta Mills
- 2011 Meeting Canadian parliamentary delegation John Atta Mills
- 2012 Death at 37 Military Hospital John Atta Mills
- 2015 State visit to Ghana Muhammadu Buhari
- 2016 University of Ghana address Pranab Mukherjee
- 2017 Nana Akufo-Addo inauguration Edgar Lungu
- 2020 Death at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Jerry Rawlings