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<h1 id="title">Kwame Nkrumah</h1>
<div id="tag">One of the African most beloved hero</div>
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<img id="image" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/President_John_F._Kennedy_Meets_with_the_President_of_the_Republic_of_Ghana%2C_Osagyefo_Dr._Kwame_Nkrumah_%28JFKWHP-AR6409-B%29.jpg" alt="Kwame Nkrumah &amp; JF Kennedy" />
<p id="img-caption">Kwame Nkrumah with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 8 March 1961</p>
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<h2> A few things about Kwame Nkrumah</h2>
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<li>Kwame Nkrumah was born in September 21, 1909 in Nkroful, Gold Coast to a poor and illitrate family. By naming customs of the Akan people, he was name Kwame, the name given to males born on a Saturday.In 1945 he, later change his name to Kwame Krumah.</li>
<li>In 1925 Kwame Nkrumah becomes a student-teacher the Elementary school run a Catholic mission at Half Assini from where he was learning.
He was then notice by notice by Reverend Alec Garden Fraserr, principal of the Government Training College (soon to become Achimota School) in the Gold Coast's capital, Accra who will arrange for Nkrumah to train as a teacher at his school.</li>
<li>In 1930 after obtaining his Teacher's Certificate from the Prince of Wales' College at Achimota in 1930, he was given a teaching post at the Roman Catholic primary school in Elmina in 1931, later headmaster of the school at Axim. In Axim, he started to get involved in politics and founded the Nzima Literary Society.</li>
<li>In 1933, he was appointed a teacher at the Catholic seminary at Amissano.
Nkrumah had heard journalist and future Nigerian president Nnamdi Azikiwe speak while a student at Achimota; the two men met and Azikiwe's influence increased Nkrumah's interest in black nationalism. He decide to further his education an travel to America.</li>
<li>In October 1935, when he arrived in New York, he traveled to Pennsylvania, where he enrolled despite lacking the funds for the full semester.</li>
<li>In 1939, Nkrumah completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. Lincoln then appointed him an assistant lecturer in philosophy. Nkrumah enrolled at Lincoln's seminary and at the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.</li>
<li>In 1942, he gained a Bachelor of Theology degree from Lincol, the top student in the course. He earned from Penn the following year a Master of Arts degree in philosophy and a Master of Science in education. While at Penn, Nkrumah worked with the linguist William Everett Welmers, providing the spoken material that formed the basis of the first descriptive grammar of his native Fante dialect of the Akan language.</li>
<li>In 1944, Nkrumah played a major role in the Pan-African conference held in New York which urged the United States, at the end of the Second World War, to help ensure Africa became developed and free.</li>
<li>In May 1945, Nkrumah returned to London, he enrolled at the London School of Economics as a PhD candidate in anthropology. He withdrew after one term and the next year enrolled at University College, with the intent to write a philosophy dissertation on "Knowledge and Logical Positivism".</li>
<li>In 1947, Kwame Nkrumah return to Gold Coast, he is approached by United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC).</li>
<li>In 1948, Nkrumah and Danquah addressed a meeting of the Ex-Servicemen's Union in Accra on 20 February 1948, which was in preparation for a march to present a petition to the governor. When that demonstration took place on 28 February, there was gunfire from the British, prompting the 1948 Accra Riots, which spread throughout the country.
The government assumed that the UGCC was responsible for the unrest, and arrested six leaders, including Nkrumah and Danquah. The Big Six were incarcerated together in Kumasi. They were freed in April 1948.</li>
<li>In April 1949, there was considerable pressure on Nkrumah from his supporters to leave the UGCC and form his own party. On 12 June 1949, he announced the formation of the Convention People's Party (CPP), with the word "convention" chosen, according to Nkrumah, "to carry the masses with us".</li>
<li>On 8 January 1950, Nkrumah and other CPP leaders were arrested on 22 January, and the Evening News was banned. Nkrumah was sentenced to a total of three years in prison, and he was incarcerated with common criminals in Accra's Fort James.</li>
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<li>In the February 1951 legislative election, the first general election to be held under universal franchise in colonial Africa, the CPP was elected in a landslide. The CPP secured 34 of the 38 seats contested on a party basis, with Nkrumah elected for his Accra constituency. Nkrumah was released from prison on 12 February.</li>
<li>From 1951 to 1956, the number of pupils being educated at the colony's schools rose from 200,000 to 500,000.</li>
<li>In 1951, the CPP created the Accelerated Development Plan for Education. This plan set up a six-year primary course, to be attended as close to universally as possible, with a range of possibilities to follow. All children were to learn arithmetic, as well as gain "a sound foundation for citizenship with permanent literacy in both English and the vernacular."</li>
<li>In 1953, Nkrumah announced that though Africans would be given preference, the country would be relying on expatriate European civil servants for several years</li>
<li>In the election on 15 June 1954, the CPP won 71, with the regional Northern People's Party forming the official opposition.</li>
<li>On 6 March 1957. As the first of Britain's African colonies to gain majority-rule independence, the celebrations in Accra were the focus of world attention; over 100 reporters and photographers covered the events. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent congratulations and his vice president, Richard Nixon, to represent the U.S. at the events. The Soviet delegation urged Nkrumah to visit Moscow as soon as possible.</li>
<li>In 1958, an opposition MP was arrested on charges of trying to obtain arms abroad for a planned infiltration of the Ghana Army (GA). Nkrumah was convinced there had been an assassination plot against him, and his response was to have the parliament pass the Preventive Detention Act, allowing for incarceration for up to five years without charge or trial, with only Nkrumah empowered to release prisoners early.</li>
<li>In 1959, Nkrumah used his majority in the parliament to push through the Constitutional Amendment Act, which abolished the assemblies and allowed the parliament to amend the constitution with a simple majority.</li>
<li>Queen Elizabeth II remained sovereign over Ghana from 1957 to 1960. William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel was the Governor-General, and Nkrumah remained Prime Minister. On 6 March 1960, Nkrumah announced plans for a new constitution which would make Ghana a republic, headed by a president with broad executive and legislative powers. The draft included a provision to surrender Ghanaian sovereignty to a Union of African States. On 19, 23, and 27 April 1960 a presidential election and plebiscite on the constitution were held. The constitution was ratified and Nkrumah was elected president over J. B. Danquah, the UP candidate, 1,016,076 to 124,623. Ghana remained a part of the British-led Commonwealth of Nations.</li>
<li>In February 1966, while Nkrumah was on a state visit to North Vietnam and China, his government was overthrown in a violent coup d'état led by the national military and police forces, with backing from the civil service. The conspirators, led by Joseph Arthur Ankrah, named themselves the National Liberation Council and ruled as a military government for three years.</li>
<li>He died of prostate cancer in April 1972 at the age of 62 in Bucharest, Romania.</li>
<li>In 2000, he was voted African Man of the Millennium by listeners to the BBC World Service, being described by the BBC as a "Hero of Independence", and an "International symbol of freedom as the leader of the first black African country to shake off the chains of colonial rule."
According to intelligence documents released by the U.S. Department of State's Office of the Historian, "Nkrumah was doing more to undermine [U.S. government] interests than any other black African."</li>
<li>In September 2009, President John Atta Mills declared 21 September (the 100th anniversary of Kwame Nkrumah's birth) to be Founder's Day, a statutory holiday in Ghana to celebrate the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah.</li>
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<p> To get more insight read the <a id="tribute-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah" target="_blank">Wikipedia Entry</a> about this african hero.</p>
<h2 id="works-list">Works by Kwame Nkrumah</h2>
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<li>Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah (1967).</li>
<li>Voice From Conakry (1967).</li>
<li>Class Struggle in Africa (1970).</li>
<li>I Speak of Freedom (1973).</li>
<li>Revolutionary Path (1973).</li>
<li>Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (1968) </li>
<li>African Socialism Revisited (1967)</li>
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