When Ghana gained Republican status

Seventy-five years after gaining roots from its establishment on October 2, 1950, the Daily Graphic, which has remained the conscience of the nation, reminisces on its journey that transcents the First Republic, when Ghana gained independence, to the Fourth Republic with nolstagia.

Predating the nation’s independence, the authoritative Daily Graphic has chronicled the history of of the country from the colonial era to the making of the first Prime Minister and later President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, to the Second Republic’s Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, then Dr Hilla Limann’s Third Republic which gave way to the Fourth Republic with the inauguration of Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings as President.

Since the enduring years of the Fourth Republic, the Daily Graphic has been in the thick of affairs, providing impactful and excellent journalism, looking into the future with optimism and explosition into the digital space.

Here are some images and stories of how the Daily Graphic captured the dispensations from the First to the Fourth republics.