ABSTRACT
Ghana's independence in 1957 marked the beginning of formal African decolonisation. South Africa had achieved Dominion status in the British Empire in 1910 and sovereignty with the Statute of Westminster in 1931. It had made this earlier progression as part of Imperial evolution, with the King as head of state. South Africa's Imperial evolution proceeded consciously from London's desire to placate Afrikaner discontent stemming from the Second Boer War and to incorporate, by political compromise, Afrikaners into an Imperial citizenship. In wider discussions he made it clear he saw the Antigua model as a pathway to eventual independence. Ghana's independence in 1957 marked the beginning of formal African decolonisation. South Africa had achieved Dominion status in the British Empire in 1910 and sovereignty with the Statute of Westminster in 1931. It had made this earlier progression as part of Imperial evolution, with the King as head of state.
