Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962

Nkrumah was also best-known politically for his strong commitment to and promotion of pan-Africanism. He was inspired by the writings of black intellectuals such as Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and George Padmore.

• 21 September 1909
  Kwame Nkrumah was born in Nkroful, Gold Coast now Ghana.
• 1930
  Nkrumah obtained his teacher's certificate from the Prince of Wales' College at Achimota now Achimota College in Acrra
• 1935
  Kwame Nkrumah arrived in Philadelphia to begin undergraduate study at Lincoln University. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology
• 1939-1942
  Nkrumah enrolled at Lincoln's seminary and at the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he gained a Bachelor of Theology degree from Lincoln
• August 1947
  Kwame return to the Gold Coast to join in the formation of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), the first political party in the Gold Coast
• 28 febuary 1948
  Kwame Nkrumah and five others were sent to prison for causing a riot against the british
• April 1949
  Nkrumah broke away from the UGCC to form his own party, the Convention Peoples's Party (CPP)
• 6 march 1957
  Nkrumah led the realization of independence of the Gold Coast
• 1957-1966
  He served as the first prime minister and later the first president of the republic of Ghana
• 27 April 1972
  Kwame died in Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania at the age of 62