Edited sentence: By 1948 the lobbying had paid off.Danquah however persisted and in the face of the colonial government's new claim that there was no money for a university in the Gold Coast, Danquah toured the country lobbying the cocoa farmers to support the creation of the institution with a levy on their produce, cocoa being the Gold Coast's major produce.In the early 1940s he petitioned the British colonial office to establish a university in the Gold Coast.JB Danquah towards its founding.Sadly, when the University celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2008, no one mentioned the pioneering work of JB Danquah and the university has no monument to his name.The history of the University seems to have been airbrushed to ignore the tireless work of Dr.This petition was initially rejected on the ground that the Gold Coast was not yet ready for such an institution and that a university would be established in Ibadan in Nigeria to serve the tertiary needs of all of Britain's colonies in West Africa