Ghana ta kasance ƙasa mai mulki tsakanin weasashe na betweenasashe tsakanin 6 ga Maris 1957 da 1 ga Yuli 1960, kafin ta zama Jamhuriyar Ghana. Ita ce kasar Afirka ta yamma ta farko da ta samu 'yanci. Mulkin Burtaniya ya ƙare a 1957, lokacin da Dokar 'yancin Ghana ta 1957 ya canza Masarautar Burtaniya ta Kogin Zinare zuwa cikin mulkin mallaka na Ghana. Masarautar ta Biritaniya ta kasance shugabar kasa, kuma Ghana ta raba Sarautarta da sauran kasashen Commonwealth. Matsayin da kundin tsarin mulki ya ba shi galibi an ba shi ga Janar-Janar na Ghana. Wadannan gwamnoni-janar masu rike da mukamai: Charles Noble Arden-Clarke (6 Maris – 24 Yuni 1957) William Francis Hare, 5th Earl na Listowel (24 Yuni 1957 – 1 Yuli 1960) Kwame Nkrumah ya rike mukamin Firayim Minista (kuma shugaban gwamnati). Bayan soke masarauta, Nkrumah ya lashe zaben shugaban kasa kuma ya zama Shugaban kasar Ghana na farko.