Kwame Nkrumah PC was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary who lived from 21 September 1909 to 27 April 1972.
Kwame Nkrumah PC was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary who lived from 21 September 1909 to 27 April 1972. He was Ghana's first Prime Minister and President, leading the country to independence from Britain in 1957. Nkrumah, a prominent proponent of Pan-Africanism, was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.
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