Kwame Nkrumah

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Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister and President of an independent Ghana and a leading Pan-Africanist who played a key role in Africa’s decolonization and unity movements.

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instanceOf Pan-Africanist
anti-colonial activist
human
politician
revolutionary
authored Pan-Africanism
surface form: Africa Must Unite

Consciencism
Dark Days in Ghana
I Speak of Freedom
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
causeOfDeath prostate cancer
child Gamal Nkrumah
Gamal Nkrumah
surface form: Samia Nkrumah

Gamal Nkrumah
surface form: Sekou Nkrumah
citizenship Ghana
Gold Coast
coFounded African Union
surface form: Organization of African Unity
commemoratedBy Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park
statues in Ghana
countryOfBirth Gold Coast
countryOfDeath Romania
dateOfBirth 1909-09-21
dateOfDeath 1972-04-27
educatedAt Achimota School
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
London School of Economics
surface form: London School of Economics and Political Science

University College London
University of Pennsylvania
exiledTo Guinea
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surface form: Nkrumah
founded Convention People’s Party
fullName Kwame Nkrumah self-linksurface differs
surface form: Francis Kwame Nkrumah
givenName Kwame
headOfGovernmentFor Ghana
headOfStateFor Ghana
honorificTitle Osagyefo
ideology African socialism
Pan-Africanism
anti-imperialism
influenced African independence movements
influencedBy George Padmore
Marcus Garvey
W. E. B. Du Bois
languageSpoken English
Nzema
livedIn Accra
Conakry
memberOf Convention People’s Party
movement Non-Aligned Movement
Pan-Africanism
surface form: Pan-African movement
nationality Ghanaian
notableFor advocacy for African unity
being the first President of Ghana
being the first Prime Minister of independent Ghana
leadership in Pan-Africanism
leading Ghana to independence from British colonial rule
role in African decolonization
occupation author
political theorist
politician
teacher
officeEnd President of Ghana 1966-02-24
Prime Minister of Ghana 1960-07-01
officeStart President of Ghana 1960-07-01
Prime Minister of Ghana 1957-03-06
overthrownBy 1966 Ghanaian coup d’état
placeOfBirth Nkroful
Western Region, Gold Coast
placeOfDeath Bucharest
positionHeld General Secretary of the United Gold Coast Convention
Head of Government of Ghana
Head of State of Ghana
Leader of Government Business of the Gold Coast
Leader of the Convention People’s Party
President of Ghana
Prime Minister of Ghana
regionOfActivity Ghana
Pan-African world
West Africa
religion Roman Catholicism
spouse Fathia Nkrumah
subjectOf biographies about Kwame Nkrumah

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NAM founder Kwame Nkrumah
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Flag of Ghana introducedBy Kwame Nkrumah
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Kwame isNameOf Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame isNameOf Kwame Nkrumah
this entity surface form: Kwame Nkrumah (artist)
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Dark Days in Ghana author Kwame Nkrumah
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this entity surface form: Kwame Nkrumah as deposed president of Ghana
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this entity surface form: President Kwame Nkrumah
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