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Nkrumah, Kwame
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Nkrumah, Kwame (1909–72). After university education in the USA, Nkrumah helped to organize the fifth Pan‐African Congress in Britain in 1945. Returning to the Gold Coast in 1947 he founded the populist Convention Peoples' Party. Imprisoned after organizing a campaign of non‐cooperation in 1950, he was elected to Parliament in 1951 and was released from detention, becoming prime minister of the Gold Coast in 1952. He remained in office when the country, renamed
Ghana, gained its independence in 1957, and became president of the Republic of Ghana in 1960. His financial extravagance and increasingly authoritarian rule led to his overthrow in 1966.
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Kwame Ture on Kwame Nkrumah
Magazine article from: The New Crisis; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; NKRUMAH WAS A TRUE VISIONARY: A GENUINE PAN-AFRICANIST Kwame Nkrumah was born in 1909 in Nkroful, a middle village in what...political struggles for independence against colonialism. Nkrumah did well in his academic studies and finished all levels...
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 "The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online)")
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The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah in Retrospect
Magazine article from: The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online); 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...an undemocratic government. "Nkrumah is a reminder not of what Africa...recognisable around the globe. That of Kwame Nkrumah, who was once the Nelson Mandela...relevance and a reassessment of Kwame Nkrumah's role and contribution to African...
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The legacy of Kwame Nkrumah in retrospect.(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Pan African Studies; 3/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; "Nkrumah is a reminder not of what Africa is...recognisable around the globe. That of Kwame Nkrumah, who was once the Nelson Mandela of...achievements, relevance and a reassessment of Kwame Nkrumah's role and contribution to African...
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Parents Seek to Save School; D.C. Officials Order Charterless Kwame Nkrumah to Close Today
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Defiant parents and children at the Kwame Nkrumah International School, which opened...Thompson, who has five children at Kwame Nkrumah. "This meets everything my children...said they would be angry to see Kwame Nkrumah close, and several seniors said...
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The Making of a Pan-Africanist: Kwame Nkrumah in America
Newspaper article from: Michigan Citizen; 2/16/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...dignity to Black people worldwide than Kwame Nkrumah, the liberator and first president...his American sojourn that shaped Nkrumah into the leading Pan-Africanist...of the 20th century. Black Star Nkrumah's star burst upon the world stage...
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Kwame Nkrumah and political marketing: locating campaign strategy in modern political campaigning.
Magazine article from: Journal of Pan African Studies; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...forming the case on Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and political marketing, there...political character and behavior of Nkrumah and the CPP party in the tradition...1961; Vieta, 1999)--invited Kwame Nkrumah into its institutions as an organizing...
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The ghost of Kwame Nkrumah Zimbabwe and Africa
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/24/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Tribune 04-24-2008 The ghost of Kwame Nkrumah Zimbabwe and Africa Byline: Jonathan...Ghanaian independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah. To throw off the colonial yoke...Mugabe's recent behavior echoes Kwame Nkrumah at his worst: paranoid, brutal...
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Kwame Nkrumah and Political Marketing: Locating Campaign Strategy in Modern Political Campaigning
Magazine article from: The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online); 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Key words: Kwame Nkrumah; Campaign strategy; Political marketing...to the discourse on Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, his works, visions, ambitions...forming the case on Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and political marketing, there are...
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ERICA POWELL ; Secretary to Kwame Nkrumah
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...British woman Erica Powell and Kwame Nkrumah, the giant of African independence...herself magnificently," said Gamal Nkrumah, the president's son. "She...Arden-Clarke, that Powell met Kwame Nkrumah, recently released from prison...
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Kwame Nkrumah, the Big Six, and the fight for Ghana's independence.
Magazine article from: Journal of Pan African Studies; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...filled the heart of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the pioneer prime minister of...colonialists and slavers. Dr. Nkrumah captured the essence of this mission...governed by someone else." (Kwame Nkrumah, 1980, p.75) These sayings...
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Kwame Nkrumah
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) was the first president of Ghana. Though he effected Ghana's independence and for a decade was Africa's foremost spokesman, his vainglory and dictatorial methods brought about his downfall in 1966...
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Nkrumah, Kwame 1909–1972
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
Kwame Nkrumah 1909–1972 Former head of state of Ghana At a Glance…...Guinea Selected writings Sources Even decades after his death in 1972, Kwame Nkrumah remains a symbol of the movement for African independence that occurred...
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Nkrumah, Kwame
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Nkrumah, Kwame 1909-1972 It is an unquestionable fact that the political leader with the most profound impact on Africa in the twentieth century was Kwame Nkrumah, the founder and first president of the independent nation of Ghana...
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Nkrumah, Kwame Francis Nwia Kofi
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Nkrumah, Kwame Francis Nwia Kofi (b. 21 Sept. 1909, d. 27 Apr. 1972). Prime Minister of the Gold Coast 1952–7; President...
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Danquah, Joseph Kwame Kyeretwi Boakye
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Danquah, Joseph Kwame Kyeretwi Boakye (b. 21...Coast Convention, offering Nkrumah the post of general secretary...Increasingly hostile to Nkrumah, he failed to be elected...in 1964 for criticism of Nkrumah's dictatorial methods...
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