Biography of kwame nkrumah
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Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (–)
Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September – 27 April ) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from until , when it gained independence from Britain.[1] He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from until An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in [2]
After twelve years abroad pursuing higher education, developing his political philosophy, and organizing with other diasporic pan-Africanists, Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast to begin his political career as an advocate of national independence.[3] He formed the Convention People's Party, which achieved rapid success through its unprecedented appeal to the common voter.[4] He became Prime Minister in and retained the positio
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Kwame Nkrumah was the first prime minister of Ghana (former British Gold Coast colony and British Togoland) at independence in He later became the first president of Ghana as a Republic in Nkrumah was born in the village of Nkroful in Nzima Land, an area Southwest of the Gold Coast colony. As was common in those days, keeping official records of births was not mandatory, as a result, Nkrumah’s exact date of birth is open to question. For official purposes, he used September 21, , as his date of birth, recorded by the Roman Catholic Church priest who baptized him. However, Nkrumah later calculated Saturday, September 18, , as the most likely date of his birth.
As was common in traditional Africa, Nkrumah was born in a polygamous family setting where his father, Kofi Ngonloma, from the Akan tribe and a goldsmith by yrke, had many wives and children. His mother, Elizabeth Nyaniba, was a retail trader, and Nkrumah was her only child. At birth, his father nam
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Overview
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was born in September in Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana), and died on April 27, , in Bucharest, Romania. He was a Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast’s drive for independence from Britain and presided over its emergence as the new nation of Ghana. He headed the country from independence in until
Early Years, Prison, and Presidency
Early Years
Kwame Nkrumah’s father was a goldsmith and his mother a retail trader. Baptized a Roman Catholic, Nkrumah spent nine years at the långnovell Catholic elementary school in nearby Half Assini. After graduation from Achimota College in , he started his career as a teacher at Roman Catholic junior schools in Elmina and Axim and at a seminary.
Increasingly drawn to politics, Nkrumah decided to pursue further studies in the United States. He entered Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in and, after graduating in , obtained master’s degrees from Lincoln and from the University of Pennsylvania. He stud