This short article describes the content and impact of the files related to the Watson Commission, a commission of enquiry empowered by British colonial government officials to investigate the causes and consequences of the riots that rocked the city of Accra (Gold Coast Colony) in 1948. They comprise a collection of reports and testimonies from a wide range of people from across the social, economic, and political spectrum of the colonial Gold Coast. In a colonial archive that often privileges the voices of British government officials, technocrats, and African politicians, this collection of 32 files represents an unprecedented insight into the lived experience of a wide range of individuals and communities, and documents the processes that led to independence for the nation-state of Ghana.

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英国档案馆之一：异议档案：通过沃森委员会使反殖民历史复杂化（黄金海岸/加纳）


这篇短文介绍了与沃森委员会相关的文件的内容和影响，沃森委员会是一个由英国殖民政府官员授权的调查委员会，负责调查 1948 年震撼阿克拉市（黄金海岸殖民地）的骚乱的原因和后果。它们包括来自殖民地黄金海岸社会、经济和政治领域的广泛人士的报告和证词的集合。在一份经常代表英国政府官员、技术官僚和非洲政治家声音的殖民档案中，这本包含 32 个文件的集合代表了对广泛个人和社区生活经历的前所未有的洞察，并记录了导致独立的过程为加纳民族国家。