This course assesses the progress of Ghana in its efforts at building a modern nation state. It examines the challenges the country has faced in its efforts to consolidate its political independence and to achieve economic decolonization and modernization. The course studies the approaches of the various regimes to the governance of Ghana. It examines the internal challenges to Ghana’s national efforts and the ways in which external factors mediated these efforts. The course enables students to draw a balance sheet of Ghana’s post-colonial economic, social, and political achievements up to 1992.