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Kwame Nkrumah

1909 - 1972

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Francis Kwame Nkrumah (Nzema: [kʷame nkruma], 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain. He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kwame Nkrumah is the 1,272nd most popular politician (down from 1,190th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Ghana and the most popular Ghanaian Politician.

Kwame Nkrumah was the first president of Ghana. He led Ghana to independence from British colonial rule in 1957. He was then overthrown in a military coup in 1966.

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Among politicians, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 1,272 out of 19,576. Before him are Alexander of Greece, Bảo Đại, Lajos Kossuth, Mary of Clopas, Benjamin Disraeli, and Octavia the Younger. After him are Justin II, Sariputta, Chlothar II, Reza Shah, Herman Van Rompuy, and John III Doukas Vatatzes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 15. Before him are Mohammed Daoud Khan, U Thant, Francis Bacon, Andrei Gromyko, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Peter Drucker. After him are Victor Borge, Stanislaw Ulam, Mohammed V of Morocco, Li Xiannian, Elia Kazan, and Isaiah Berlin. Among people deceased in 1972, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 11. Before him are Frederick IX of Denmark, Ezra Pound, Yasunari Kawabata, M. C. Escher, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, and Neilia Hunter Biden. After him are Paul-Henri Spaak, Igor Sikorsky, Franz Halder, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Asta Nielsen, and J. Edgar Hoover.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 2 out of 162. Before him are Kofi Annan (1938). After him are Peter Turkson (1948), John Mahama (1958), John Atta Mills (1944), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Marcel Desailly (1968), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Abedi Pele (1964), John Kufuor (1938), Jerry Rawlings (1947), and Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ghana

Among politicians born in Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 1. After him are John Mahama (1958), John Atta Mills (1944), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), John Kufuor (1938), Jerry Rawlings (1947), Clement Quartey (1938), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), Hilla Limann (1934), Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931), and Fred Akuffo (1937).

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