Kwame Nkrumah | |
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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 Bucharest, Romanie | (aged 62)
Restin place | Nkrumah Mausoleum, Accra |
Naitionality | Breetish, Ghanaian |
Poleetical pairty | CPP |
Spoose(s) | Fathia |
Bairns | 4
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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]