Kwame Nkrumah
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Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah
Naaŋɔ | male |
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Country of citizenship | Gold Coast Colony, Ghana |
Name in native language | Kwame Nkrumah |
Given name | Kwame |
Family name | Nkrumah |
Date of birth | 21 Sakutega 1909 |
Place of birth | Nkroful |
Date of death | 27 Dawalega 1972 |
Place of death | Bucharest |
Manner of death | natural causes |
Cause of death | skin cancer, prostate cancer |
Place of burial | Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, Ankara, Nkroful |
Spouse | |
Child | Gamal Nkrumah, Samia Nkrumah, Sekou Nkrumah |
Native language | Fante |
Languages spoken, written or signed | Akan, Nzema, Fante, English |
Occupation | politician, writer, diplomat, lecturer |
Educated at | Lincoln University, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Achimota School, Lincoln University |
Honorific suffix | Privy Council of the United Kingdom |
Work location | Elmina, Axim |
Member of political party | Convention People's Party, United Gold Coast Convention |
Candidacy in election | 1960 Ghanaian presidential election |
Religion or worldview | Christianity |
Partner in business or sport | David Wilberforce Kwami Dawson |
Participant in | Conference on Africa |
Military or police rank | field marshal |
Notable work | Africa Must Unite |
Member of | Phi Beta Sigma |
Award received | Lenin Peace Prize, Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo, Collar of the Order of the White Lion, Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta |
Ghana Place Names URL | https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames/places-in-perspective/birthplaces#h.gb1ksetz76dk |
Birth and Education
demeseReturn to Gold Coast
demeseGhana Independence
demeseGhana's leader (1957–1966)
demesePolitical developments and presidential election
demeseOpposition to tribalism
demeseIncreased power of the Convention People's Party
demeseKwame Nkrumah Tuuma Tuuma
demese- "Negro History: European Government in Africa", The Lincolnian, 12 April 1938, p. 2 (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania) – see Special Collections and Archives, Lincoln University Archived 17 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine[1]
- Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957). ISBN 0-901787-60-4[2]
- Africa Must Unite (1963). ISBN 0-901787-13-2[3]
- African Personality (1963)[4]
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- Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965)
- Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah (1967). ISBN 0-901787-54-X
- African Socialism Revisited (1967)
- Challenge of the Congo (1967)
- Voice From Conakry (1967). ISBN 90-17-87027-3
- Dark Days in Ghana (1968). ISBN 0-7178-0046-6
- Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (1968) – first introduction of Pan-African pellet compass. ISBN 0-7178-0226-4
- Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (1970). ISBN 0-901787-11-6
- Class Struggle in Africa (1970). ISBN 0-901787-12-4
- The Struggle Continues (1973). ISBN 0-901787-41-8
- I Speak of Freedom (1973). ISBN 0-901787-14-0
- Revolutionary Path (1973). ISBN 978-0-901787-22-4
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demese- ↑ Bontemps, Arna (20 April 2017). "Lincoln and the Negro". University of Illinois Press. 1. doi:10.5406/illinois/9780252037696.003.0005.
- ↑ Nkrumah, Kwame (2002). Ghana: the autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (Africa's 100 best books ed.). London: Panaf. ISBN 0-901787-60-4. OCLC 6567302.
- ↑ Nkrumah, Kwame (1963). Africa must unite. London: Panaf ISBN 0-901787-13-2. OCLC 6567302.
- ↑ Mead, Margeret (1963). Technique & personality. Museum of Primitive Art. OCLC 603547274.