Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962.
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21 September 1909 Nkroful, Western Region, Ghana
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Died |
27 April 1972 (aged 62) Bucharest, Romania
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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