Dr Kwame Nkrumah (Born: Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma)

The strategy of the oil-fired Gulf States in Africa appears to be modelled on a foreign policy dictum coined by Ghana's founding President Kwame Nkrumah: 'We face neither east nor west – we face forwards...

Whatever the relations between governments the sense that her personal relations with each of them from Ghana's founding President Kwame Nkrumah onwards were characterised by mutual respect helped shaped British diplomacy in the post-colonial era...

The dispute comes amid another row over plans to renovate the Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum resting place of independent Ghana's first President who championed pan-Africanism and pursued socialist economic policies before being overthrown in a CIA-backed coup in 1966...

Work on another of Akufo-Addo's controversial schemes for the Kwame Nkrumah memorial was launched on 19 July...

Before Akufo-Addo became President 21 September – Kwame Nkrumah's birthday – was declared to be Founder's Day to celebrate Nkrumah as the nation's founding father...

At the same time 21 September was named Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day and both days are now observed as public holidays...

About half of the land – nearly 2 000 acres – was reserved to build the Achimota High School (where Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah had his secondary education)...

The exception is that Mahama was seen as better on infrastructure: his campaign in 2016 made much of some of his landmark projects such as a new general hospital in the centre of Accra and the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange...

He would often refer to the ideas of Arthur Lewis a Nobel prize-winning economist and advisor to Ghana's founding President Kwame Nkrumah and Vijay Joshi an economics professor at Oxford with whom he maintained a lively correspondence...

Armed with advanced degrees in economics from the universities of London and Stanford and a stint at the UN's Centre for Development Planning he returned to Ghana in 1961 to work in President Kwame Nkrumah's administration...

This project has been on the drawing board since Kwame Nkrumah commissioned the Akosombo Dam in the 1960s...

Only the glitzy Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and large luxury villas are guarded at night...

Ofori-Atta's Adwuma ('work') budget announced that the government would create 100 000 jobs for young people under new teaching agriculture sanitation and health and tax collection programmes – an uncanny echo of the Kwame Nkrumah-era Workers' Brigades (AC blog 12 December 2016 GHANA: Jobs for youth are top priority says victorious Akufo-Addo)...