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, with him a discredited and...

Kwame Nkrumah Born September 21, 1909 Nkroful, Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) Died April 27, 1972 Bucharest, Romania Independence leader and first president of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah led his nation, Ghana, to independence from Great Britain in 1957. Ghana was...

Kwame Nkrumah (September 21, 1909 - April 27, 1972)[1], one of the most influential Pan-Africanists of the 20th century, was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText =...

Sceptics never fathomed the relationship between the white British woman Erica Powell and Kwame Nkrumah, the giant of African independence and first President of Ghana, for whom she served with unfailing loyalty as private secretary for 10 years. Nkrumah was, in the words of...

Defiant parents and children at the Kwame Nkrumah International School, which opened this month as a D.C. charter school without gaining permission to do so from the D.C. Board of Education, said yesterday that they will fight efforts to close the facility. With...

Ruth Botsio recalls with misty-eyed wonder the jubilation and triumphant cries of "Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!" that greeted the birth of sub-Saharan Africa's first nation to win independence from Europe.Fifty years later, battered by political repression, military dictatorship and economic collapse that has bedeviled the entire...

Julia Agnes Washington BondATLANTA (AP) — Julia Agnes Washington Bond, whose son Julian became chairman of the NAACP and co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center, has died. She was 99.She died Friday in Atlanta, according to the Carl M. Williams Funeral Home. A cause of...