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Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (–)
Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September – 27 April ) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary.
He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from until , when it gained independence from Britain.[1] He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from until An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in [2]
After twelve years abroad pursuing higher education, developing his political philosophy, and organizing with other diasporic pan-Africanists, Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast to begin his political career as an advocate of national independence.[3] He formed the Convention People's Party, which achieved rapid success through its unprecedented appeal to the common voter.[4] He became Prime Minister in and retained the positio