Hello and welcome to a new episode of Legacy.

I'm Peter Frank O'Hopern.

I'm Afwa-Hash.

And this is Legacy, the show that explores the lives, events and ideas that have shaped our world,

and asks whether they have the reputations that they truly deserve.

Thank you. they have the reputations that they truly deserve. This is Kwame and Krumer Part 3, Pan-Africanist.

Okay, Afwa, I don't know how you would think about Victory Day in 1945,

but it must have been quite something to celebrate the news of the death of Hitler,

the German surrender, the war in Europe is over, just as everybody's thinking that the world is going to be a happy place. I mean, we'll leave Asia to one side that's got a few

more months to run, but this is a time of real relief and hope and an idea that things can go

back to normal. How does it look to Garnayans and people from Gold Coast and to Enkrumah? Well, there are 65,000 people from

the Gold Coast who've served during the war under the command of British officers in the Royal West

African Frontier Force. And actually, 30,000 of them are probably still deployed because they

have been sent to Burma. And if you go to Accra today, you can see the legacy of that. In fact,

the military base in Accra is called Burma Camp. And if you go to Accra today, you can see the legacy of that. In fact, the military

base in Accra is called Burma Camp. And there's a military graveyard for many of the service,

men who died in Burma. So it's been a big deal for people from the Gold Coast. But like most

colonial experiences, there's a real asymmetry because while people from the Gold Coast have

been massively affected by this war and have a

huge sense of their service, people in Britain don't really see their service at all. They're not

even included in the VE Day parades. They're not referred to as troops or soldiers, which is what

they were, but as Africans. And so there are all these indignities they're experiencing. And it means that the jubilation

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