Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah
Osagyefo; Kwame Nkrumah
1st Preses o Ghana
	In office; 1 Julie 1960 – 24 Februar 1966
Succeedit bi	Joseph Arthur Ankrah
3rd Chairperson o the OAU
	In office; 21 October 1965 – 24 Februar 1966
Precedit bi	Gamal Abdel Nasser
Succeedit bi	Joseph Arthur Ankrah
1st Prime Meenister o Ghana
	In office; 6 Mairch 1957 – 1 Julie 1960
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Govrenor-General	Sir Charles Arden-Clarke ; Lord Listowel
Personal details
Born	10 October 1909; Nkroful, Gold Coast
Dee'd	27 Apryle 1972 (aged 62); Bucharest, Romanie
Restin place	Nkrumah Mausoleum, Accra
Naitionality	Breetish, Ghanaian
Poleetical pairty	CPP
Spoose(s)	Fathia
Bairns	4 Francis; Gamal; Samia; Sekou;
Alma mater	Lincoln Varsity ; Varsity o Pennsylvanie
Profession	Lecturer
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Kwame Nkrumah, P.C.^[1] (21 September 1909 – 27 Aprile 1972) wis the leader o Ghana an its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, frae 1951 tae 1966. Owerseein the naition's unthirldom frae Breetish colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah wis the first Preses o Ghana an the first Prime Meenister o Ghana. An influential 20t-century advocate o Pan-Africanism, he wis a foondin member o the Organization o African Unity an was the winner o the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963. He saw himsel as an African Lenin.^[2]

References

↑ E. Jessup, John. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996. p. 533.
↑ Mazrui 1966, p. 9: "There is little doubt that, quite consciously, Nkrumah saw himself as an African Lenin. He wanted to go down in history as a major political theorist—and he wanted a particular stream of thought to bear his own name. Hence the term 'Nkrumahism'—a name for an ideology that he hoped would assume the same historic and revolutionary status as 'Leninism'."