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    Kwame Nkrumah

    Ghanaian pan-Africanist and the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana

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  1. Category. v. t. e. Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain. [1] He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966.

  2. Jun 19, 2024 · Kwame Nkrumah (born September 1909, Nkroful, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died April 27, 1972, Bucharest, Romania) 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 1957 until he was overthrown by a ...

  3. www.blackpast.org › global-african-history › nkrumah-kwame-1909-1972Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) - Blackpast

    May 14, 2009 · Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister (1957-1960) and president (1960-1966) of the Republic of Ghana, was the leader of the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain its independence. He subsequently became a leading figure in the campaign for the United States of Africa. Nkrumah was … Read MoreKwame Nkrumah (1909-1972)

  4. Apr 10, 2020 · Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah with 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy, March 8, 1961. Although Ghana gained independence in 1957, it practiced a constitutional monarchy whereby Queen Elizabeth II was the head of state. The Queen appointed William Hare (5th Earl of Listowel) as the Governor-General.

  5. Kwame Nkrumah, (born September 1909, Nkroful, Gold Coast—died April 27, 1972, Bucharest, Rom.), Nationalist leader and president of Ghana (1960–66). Nkrumah worked as a teacher before going to the U.S. to study literature and socialism (1935–45). In 1949 he formed the Convention People’s Party, which advocated nonviolent protests ...

  6. Nkrumah, Kwame. September 21, 1909 to April 27, 1972. The first African-born Prime Minister of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah was a prominent Pan-African organizer whose radical vision and bold leadership helped lead Ghana to independence in 1957. Nkrumah served as an inspiration to Martin Luther King, who often looked to Nkrumah’s leadership as an ...

  7. Jun 7, 2024 · Kwame Nkrumah was the first prime minister of Ghana (former British Gold Coast colony and British Togoland) at independence in 1957. He later became the first president of Ghana as a Republic in 1960.

  8. May 8, 2018 · Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) was the first president of Ghana. Though he effected Ghana's independence and for a decade was Africa's foremost spokesman, his vainglory and dictatorial methods brought about his downfall in 1966, with him a discredited and tragic figure in African nationalism.

  9. www.afa-afa.org › panafricanist-leaders › kwame-nkrumahKwame Nkrumah — AFA-AFA

    May 31, 2023 · Dr Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian revolutionary, politician, and the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana. Nkrumah is undoubtedly one of the most prominent and important freedom fighters that Africa and the world have seen being a passionate nationalist and Pan-Africanist.

  10. Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was born in September 1909 in Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana), and died on April 27, 1972, 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 ...

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