Nkwame Nkrumah

NKWAME NKRUMAH : ( September 21, 1909 - April 27, 1972)
To many , he is considered as the father of the African Nationalism. Eye see him as an African Abraham Lincoln, America's 16 th Federalist, Republican President who saw the Unites State as a federal State,just as President Doc. Nkwame' Nkruma did for Africa.He was the first African Leader with that vision, willing to unite Africa. who saw the Continent as a whole and not divided.
so who was this great man with extraordinary skills of leadership.This respected African President to most of the world politicians for the role he played in Africa politic.

President Nkwame Nrumah was born on September 21, 1909 in Ghana.

Over time , he will take "a non-aligned Marxist perspective on economics, and believed capitalism had malign effects that were going to stay with Africa for a long time. Although he was clear on distancing himself from the African socialism of many of his contemporaries; Nkrumah argued that socialism was the system that would best accommodate the changes that capitalism had brought, while still respecting African values."

President Nkwame Nhrumah becomes first president of the republic of Ghana on the 1 0f July 1960 after facing challenges on learning how to govern, uniting the nation, winning complete independence from the United Kingdom,in order for it to become a free, sovereign and independent nation.

Even if under his administration, he sent alot of opposition leaders to prison,and proposing a constitutional amendment posing himself as President for life, we have to remember that during his regime
most of his economical project never saw the light and his country still depending on western imports.

His government was overthrown by a military coup while he was on a state visit in Vietnam. He never went back back to Ghana but lived in Guinea Conakry as a co-president under the government of President Ahmed Sekou Toure', also living in fear of being assassinated where he spent the rest of his life writing books about his African union vision such as;



# he Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957)
# Africa Must Unite (1963)
# African Personality (1963)
# Neo-Colonialism: the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965)
# Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah (1967)
# African Socialism Revisited (1967)
# Voice From Conakry (1967)
# Handbook for Revolutionary Warfare (1968) - first introduction of Pan-African pellet compass
# Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (1970)
# Class Struggle in Africa (1970)
# The Struggle Continues (1973)
# I Speak of Freedom (1973)
# Revolutionary Path (1973)

He dies at the age of 62 of skin cancer. his body was buried at the village were he was born.