In July 1965, a group of sharply-dressed protesters, many holding placards,gathered outside Marlborough House in London's Pall Mall during the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference.
Their target; Ghana's then president, Osagyefo Dr , who was once hailed as a hero of African independence before being accused of betraying democracy.
A black-and-white photograph shared on YouTube by Nigerian lawyer, Adeyinka Makinde captures the tense moment, with the demonstrators, dressed in suits, raising signs that read "Ghana is a Prison" and "Free the Judges." What Sparked the Protest?
Barely a year after assuming office, Dr Nkrumah, Ghana's first post-independence leader, was accused of increasingly centralising power and silencing dissent through the Preventative Detention Act (1958), which allowed imprisonment without trial.
