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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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A hundred days of Kufuor

Kufuor has also authorised the return of a house allocated to the family of first President Kwame Nkrumah confiscated by the Rawlings regime and of the property of former Prime Minister Kofi Busia confiscated by Acheampong's regime in the 1970s...


Brief honeymoon

His father was a minister in Kwame Nkrumah's presidential campaign who died in preventive detention...


The centre isn't holding

Four decades earlier Ghana's Independence leader Kwame Nkrumah bet his Ivorian counterpart Félix Houphouët-Boigny that his political strategy would prevail...


My country right and left

For 50 years Ghanaian political allegiance has been built around two nationalist heroes: the socialist and first President Kwame Nkrumah and the conservative J...

The seven parties and candidates are: Vice-President John Fifi Atta Mills (NDC); studied at Kwame Nkrumah's Ideological Institute in Winneba...


Finding flagbearers

Its leaders have been slow to develop its role as a leading opposition party (following the NDC's manipulation of Nkrumaist sentiment which is now split between the ruling party itself and three small parties claiming Kwame Nkrumah's mantle)...


Zero tolerance

A mile down the road at Kwame Nkrumah Circle the writ of Warrant Officer Salifu Amankwa leader of the Accra Task Force holds sway...


Fela and his heirs

Fela's mother (who had been active in the anti-colonial struggle and introduced Fela to Kwame Nkrumah) later died from her injuries and when Gen...


Heading south

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki speaks animatedly of an 'African Renaissance' – an updated version of Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-Africanism but with South Africa rather than Ghana steering the way...


Kuala Lumpar can do

For older ANC loyalists Malaysia's relations with Pretoria seem to revive the spirit of the 1955 Bandung Conference and the Afro-Asian rhetoric that linked Egypt's Gamal Nasser India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah...


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