Kulungugu Bomb Site | About Ghana

This is a minor port of entry in the Bawku District, on the far eastern corner of Ghana's border with Burkina Faso.

In August 1962, an attempt to assassinate the architect of Ghana's independence and the first President of the Republic, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was made.

En route to Accra from signing an accord with the President of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) for the construction of the hydroelectric project on the Volta, a bomb was planted and blasted at a village school, where he made a short stopover. The bomb blast killed a young school child and injured others. A memorial stands at this site.

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