Kwame Nkrumah

(1909-1972)

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

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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. He was then the first prime minister and then the president of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966. 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 1962.

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Born	21 September 1909 Nkroful, Western Region, Ghana
Died	27 April 1972 (aged 62) Bucharest, Romania
Zodiac	Virgo
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Fathia Nkrumah 1932-2007 · First Ghanaian first lady and wife of Kwame Nkrumah · m. 1957 info edit

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Gamal Nkrumah · Son · 1959- · journalist edit info

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Samia Nkrumah · Daughter · 1960- · Ghanaian journalist and politician edit info

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