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Dr Kwame Nkrumah (Born: Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma)

Date of Birth: 21 September 1909
Place of Birth: Nkroful, Gold Coast
Died: 27 April 1972


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Who spends, wins

Sekou Nkrumah the youngest son of the country's founding father Kwame Nkrumah defected from the CPP to the NDC earlier this year and is calling for an alliance between the two parties...


Everyone's in the race

The celebration of 50 years of Independence has boosted the popularity of the founding President the late Kwame Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party (CPP)...


Nkrumah's second coming

Supporters of Ghana's founding President Kwame Nkrumah found the African Union summit in Accra on 1-3 July both a tribute and a huge frustration...


The Gadaffi caravan moves on

Yet in Africa El Gadaffi still carries an air of radical chic even if some resent him appropriating Kwame Nkrumah's ideas of a Union Government for Africa...


Banished ballots

soft loan from the Indian government on the site of Flagstaff used as residence and offices only by the first President Kwame Nkrumah who was overthrown in 1966...


Soft sell at 50

President Kufuor's government is accused of underplaying the role of Ghana's founding father Kwame Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party...


How to run a continent

United States of Africa In Addis Ababa Obasanjo will propose a new form of Pan-African government as Ghana prepares to celebrate 50 years of Independence from Britain and Kwame Nkrumah's idea of a 'United States of Africa'...


Penalty shoot-out

As Ghana celebrates its golden jubilee on 6 March the heirs of Kwame Nkrumah need a unifying figure to lead the movement he founded out of oblivion...


Charles Janson

He predicted for instance that Ghana's charismatic leader Kwame Nkrumah would become an erratic despot and that Julius Nyerere would bankrupt his country with his unwieldy ujamaa model...


Oil and oligarchs

Potential partners include Goosie Tanoh's Reform Party which broke with the NDC calling for more party democracy and the moribund Convention People's Party founded by the late Kwame Nkrumah in 1949 now deadlocked in merger talks with Edward Mahama's People's National Convention...


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