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Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Profile of Ghana`s great 1st president
Dr Kwame Nkrumah Profile

Kwame Nkrumah,  (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966. He became the first Prime Minister of the Gold Coast in 1951, and led it to independence as Ghana in 1957, becoming the new country's first Prime Minister. After Ghana became a republic in 1960, Nkrumah became President.

An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963. 

Kwame Nkrumah was born as Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma in 1909 in Nkroful, Gold Coast. Nkrumah studied to be a teacher at Achimota School in Accra from 1925 to 1935. For the following five years he worked as a teacher in several schools in the Gold Coast including 

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Works by Kwame Nkrumah

  • "Negro History: European Government in Africa", The Lincolnian, 12 April 1938, p. 2 (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania) - see Special Collections and Archives, Lincoln University
  • Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957). ISBN 0-901787-60-4
  • Africa Must Unite (1963). ISBN 0-901787-13-2
  • African Personality (1963)
  • Neo-Colonialism: the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965). ISBN 0-901787-23-X
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  • "The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside." (Introduction)
  • Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah (1967). ISBN 0-901787-54-X
  • African Socialism Revisited (1967)
  • Voice From Conakry (1967). ISBN 90-17-87027-3
  • Dark Days in Ghana (1968). ISBN 0-7178-0046-6
  • Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (1968) - first introduction of Pan-African pellet compass. ISBN 0-7178-0226-4
  • Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (1970). ISBN 0-901787-11-6
  • Class Struggle in Africa (1970). ISBN 0-901787-12-4
  • The Struggle Continues (1973). ISBN 0-901787-41-8
  • I Speak of Freedom (1973). ISBN 0-901787-14-0
  • Revolutionary Path (1973). ISBN 0-901787-22-1

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