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Kwame Nkrumah

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Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast to independence and served as Ghana's first prime minister and first president. He was a leading advocate of Pan-Africanism and continental unity.

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Birth Year
1909 1
Death Date
1972-04-27 1
Death Year
1972 1
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Led

Ghanaian Independence, Movements

Nkrumah led the Convention People's Party's campaign for immediate self-government and became Ghana's first prime minister on independence.

Shaped

Ghana, Countries
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1. Kwame Nkrumah (Britannica)
Encyclopaedia BritannicaView the Source
Ghana, Independence (Britannica)
Encyclopaedia BritannicaLed: Ghanaian IndependenceView the Source
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