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Kwame Nkrumah, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from the United Kingdom. He was then the first prime minister and then the president of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organisation of African Un…
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politics · Ghanaian politician (1909–1972) · politician · writer · diplomat · lecturer · university teacher · pedagogue · theologian · economist · philosopher · also Kwame Nkrumah, Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma, Nkrumah, Francis Nwia Kofi Nkrumah, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
Born 21 September 1909 · Died 27 April 1972 · Q8620
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“Employers, both public and private, will be expected to make a far greater contribution to labour training through individual factory and farm schools, industry-wide training schemes, day release, payment for attendance at short courses and evening classes.”
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“trainees should be made to realize the party”
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MyJoyOnline: Governance must create a society of opportunities for Ghana’s youth – Oppong Nkrumah
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Modern Ghana: Oppong Nkrumah Accuses NDC Government of Undermining Ghana’s Democracy
Modern Ghana: Oppong Nkrumah demands full disclosure of BoG financing for gold purchase programme
Modern Ghana: NDC government dismantling the pillars of Ghana's democracy! - Kojo Oppong Nkrumah
Ghanaweb.com: How Dr Kwame Nkrumah transformed Black Stars to win two AFCON titles
The Africa Report: Ghana: Why Kwame Nkrumah’s legacy party CPP fades
The Conversation: Kwame Nkrumah: memorials to the man who led Ghana to independence have been built, erased and revived again
Awarded Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo (2004).
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Was voted BBC African of the millennium
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Died 1972-04-27.
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“The difference between myself and Castro is that I am not aligned and he is; I am a socialist and he is a communist.”
“We cannot tell our peoples that material benefits in growth and modern progress are not for them. If we do, they will throw us out and seek other leaders who promise more … We have to modernize. Either we shall do so with the interest and support of the West or we shall be compelled to turn elsewhere. This is not a warning or a threat, but a straight statement of political reality.”
Wrote: "During his high‐flying days as the leader of Ghana in the 1950s and early 1960s, Kwame Nkrumah was a flamboyant spellbinder
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“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”
“The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa.”
“11th March 1966. You shouldn”
In a coup d'état by the National Liberation Council
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1965).
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Career landmark: chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity (1965–1966).
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Nkrumah proposed a constitutional amendment that would make the CPP the only legal party, with Nkrumah as president for life of both nation and party
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A constitutional amendment made Ghana a one-party state, with Nkrumah as president for life of both the nation and its party
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All students entering college in Ghana were required to attend a two-week "ideological orientation" at the institute
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Nkrumah brought forth the Seven Year Development Plan for National Reconstruction and Development, which identified education as a key source of development and called for the expansion of secondary technical schools
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Focused on further industrialisation, emphasising domestic substitutes for common imports, modernisation of the building materials industry, machine making, electrification and electronics
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1963).
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Nkrumah opened the Institute of African Studies
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Kwame Nkrumah was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union
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Three younger members of the CPP were brought up on charges of taking part in a plot to blow up Nkrumah's car in a motorcade
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Awarded Collar of the Order of the White Lion (1961).
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And 1964, created the legal framework for public corporations, which included state enterprises
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Nkrumah went on tour through Eastern Europe, proclaiming solidarity with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China
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Nkrumah laid the first stones in the foundation of the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute created to train Ghanaian civil servants as well as promote Pan-Africanism
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The CPP passed the Apprentice Act, which created a general Apprenticeship Board along with committees for each industry
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The GBC formed an external service broadcasting in English, French, Arabic, Swahili, Portuguese and Hausa
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The Navy ordered two 600-ton corvettes, the Keta and Kromantse, from Vosper & Company and received them in 1967
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Nkrumah apparently became still more convinced of the need for state control of the economy
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Created the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission in 1963, and in 1964 laid the first stone in the building of an atomic energy facility
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Was a participant in the 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia making Ghana one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement
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Ghanaians approved a new constitution and elected Nkrumah as president
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Career landmark: President of Ghana (1960–1966).
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One ton of cocoa sold for £250 in London
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Invoked the right of pre-publication censorship of all news
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And 1960 designated special positions in parliament to be held by women
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Nkrumah used his majority in the parliament to push through the Constitutional Amendment Act, which abolished the assemblies and allowed the parliament to amend the constitution with a simple majority
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And 1959 gave the government more power to destool chiefs directly, and proclaimed government of stool land – and revenues
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And then in 1962 obtaining its competitor, the Daily Graphic, from the Mirror Group of London
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An opposition MP was arrested on charges of attempting to obtain arms abroad for a planned infiltration of the Ghana Army (GA)
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His government passed "An Act to prohibit organizations using or engaging in racial or religious propaganda to the detriment of any other racial or religious community, or securing the election of persons on account of t
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As a married couple, Fathia and Nkrumah had three children: Gamal (born 1958), Samia (born 1960) and Sekou (born 1964).
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Nkrumah created a well-funded Ghana News Agency to generate domestic news and disseminate it abroad
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Kwame Nkrumah married Fathia Ritzk, an Egyptian Coptic bank worker and former teacher, on the evening of her arrival in Ghana: New Year's Eve, 1957–1958.
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Career landmark: Minister for Foreign Affairs (1957–1958).
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Career landmark: Minister for Defence (1957–1960).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Ghana (1957–1960).
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“We are going to see that we create our own African personality and identity. We again rededicate ourselves in the struggle to emancipate other countries in Africa; for our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.”
Career landmark: Member of the 1st Parliament of the 1st Republic of Ghana (1956–1960).
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The Gold Coast took control of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF), Gold Coast Regiment, from the British War Office
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Stated that such a commission should only be used if the people of the Gold Coast proved incapable of deciding their own affairs
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Career landmark: Member of the 2nd Parliament of the Gold Coast (1954–1956).
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And revamped as the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC)
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The world price of cocoa rose from £150 to £450 per ton
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Nkrumah announced that though Africans would be given preference, the country would be relying on expatriate European civil servants for several years
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And retained the position when he led Ghana to independence from the United Kingdom in 1957, a first in sub-Saharan Africa at the time
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The governor withdrew from the cabinet, leaving Nkrumah as his prime minister, with the portfolios that had been reserved for expatriates going to Africans
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Consulted with the visiting Colonial Secretary, Oliver Lyttelton, who indicated that Britain would look favourably on further advancement, so long as the chiefs and other stakeholders had the opportunity to express th
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The Artisan Trading Scheme, arranged with the Colonial Office and UK Ministry of Labour, provided for a few experts in every field to travel to Britain for technical education
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The CPP created the Accelerated Development Plan for Education
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Career landmark: Member of the 1st Parliament of the Gold Coast (1951–1954).
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And was used against him by the British authorities
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Only 28 of 212 officers in December 1956 were indigenous Africans
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Took the name Kwame Nkrumah
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Which urged the United States, at the end of the Second World War, to help ensure Africa became developed and free
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Nkrumah met Trinidadian Marxist C
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Nkrumah enrolled at Lincoln's seminary and at the Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and in 1942, he was initiated into the Mu chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity at Lincoln Universit
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Nkrumah also has another son, Francis, a paediatrician (born 1935).
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Was appointed a teacher at the Catholic seminary at Amissano
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Nkrumah was given a teaching post at the Catholic primary school in Elmina in 1931
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In the US, and in 1942, Nkrumah led traditional prayers for Aggrey at the graveside
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Was a student-teacher in the school and was baptised into the Catholic faith
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Born 1909-09-21.
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