The United Ghana Farmers' Council was the farmers' wing of the Convention People's Party, which, led by Kwame Nkrumah, gained independence for Ghana in 1957. The Farmers' Council was dissolved and banned in 1966, together with other CPP organisations, after a military coup had overthrown the Nkrumah government. This book is primarly about the Farmers' Council and its functions in the political and economic system established by the CPP.
Contents: I. Ghana and the CPP: an Introduction -- II. The Cocoa Economy -- III. The Origin of the Farmer´s Council -- IV. The Struggle for Monopoly -- V. The New Middlemen -- VI. Participation and Political Control – VII. Cocoa and the Public Economy -- VIII. The Farmer´s Council and the CPP: Summary and Conclusions