General News of Wednesday, 4 March 2026Source: www.ghanaweb.comRevisiting the archives on this March 4, 2026, we recall the moment a young Dr Martin Luther King Jnr touched down in Accra 69 years ago. His brief visit to the Gold Coast would eventually inspire his most famous sermons, forever cementing Ghana as the 'promised land' of the 20th-century freedom struggle. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, landed in the capital two days before the official declaration of independence on March 6, 1957. March 3, 1957: Key events that set the stage for Ghana's IndependenceThe invitation was facilitated through Martin Luther King’s close associate Bayard Rustin and activist Bill Sutherland, who at the time was working with Nkrumah’s Minister of Finance, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah. African independence and American civil rights both rooted in the same unshakeable belief in freedom, dignity, and justice.

Source: GhanaWeb March 04, 2026 13:22 UTC