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Howzit all,
Buckshot06: I noticed one of my recent contributions to the article was reverted as "a goof" or "vandalism", and object to this sort of dismissal to what I believe was a perfectly justifiable revision. The edit entailed replacing use of the term "British", favouring "white" and specifying that black Ghanaians (as opposed to Ghanaians in general) were a minority in the army's officer corps at independence.
There were 15,600 whites in Ghana at independence, and many of them had been born there. They held military positions much like expatriate British service members but could not be regarded wholly as British; for instance, upon Ghanaian independence they would've been regarded as Ghanaian citizens. This is an important distinction; where the military history of Northern and Southern Rhodesia was concerned, most military scholars distinguish between white Zambians and Zimbabweans serving in the military at independence and British expatriates seconded by their government. Given that persons of European descent actually made up a larger percentage of the population in Ghana than Zambia at the time, I feel the same precedent should be extended to them accordingly. Consider that in all British territories with sizable white communities, local whites were heavily overrepresented in the colonial and immediate post-independence military establishments. Certainly they did not outnumber the number of British expatriate staff (at least, those on short-term contracts) but nevertheless the point stands.
Thanks, -- Katangais (talk) 22:07, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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