Ghana Renames Kotoka International Airport

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The name of Ghana’s international airport has been changed by removing the coup leader who overthrew her founding father.

Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka was among a group of officers who deposed Kwame Nkrumah in 1966 but died one year later at the airport after a counter-coup. The then-military government renamed the international airport Kotoka in 1969 in his honor as a liberator from Nkrumah’s authoritarian rule.

However, some argued that Kotoka contradicts Ghana’s values. Sixty years later, the government has removed the Kotoka name from the international airport and renamed it to its original name, ‘Accra International Airport.’