Kwame Nkrumah
(Reguidit frae Osagyefo)
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]
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 (aged 62) Bucharest, Romanie |
| Restin place | Nkrumah Mausoleum, Accra |
| Naitionality | Breetish, Ghanaian |
| Poleetical pairty | CPP |
| Spoose(s) | Fathia |
| Bairns | |
| Alma mater | Lincoln Varsity Varsity o Pennsylvanie |
| Profession | Lecturer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
References
eedit- ↑ E. Jessup, John. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996. p. 533.
- ↑ Mazrui 1966, p. 9: "There is little doubt that, quite consciously, Nkrumah saw himself as an African Lenin. He wanted to go down in history as a major political theorist—and he wanted a particular stream of thought to bear his own name. Hence the term 'Nkrumahism'—a name for an ideology that he hoped would assume the same historic and revolutionary status as 'Leninism'."