Kwame Nkrumah
Sex or gender | male |
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Country of citizenship | Gold Coast Colony, Ghana |
Name in native language | Kwame Nkrumah |
Given name | Kwame |
Family name | Nkrumah |
Date of birth | 21 Sentɔmbare 1909 |
Place of birth | Nkroful |
Date of death | 27 Kyɛpire 1972 |
Place of death | Bucharest |
Manner of death | natural causes |
Cause of death | skin cancer, prostate cancer |
Place of burial | Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, Accra, Nkroful |
Spouse | |
Child | Gamal Nkrumah, Samia Nkrumah, Sekou Nkrumah |
Native language | Fante |
Languages spoken, written or signed | Akan, Nzema Language, Fante, English |
Occupation | politician, writer, diplomat, lecturer |
Educated at | Lincoln University, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Achimota School, Lincoln University |
Honorific suffix | Privy Council of the United Kingdom |
Work location | Elmina, Axim |
Member of political party | Convention People's Party, United Gold Coast Convention |
Candidacy in election | 1960 Ghanaian presidential election |
Religion or worldview | Christianity |
Partner in business or sport | David Wilberforce Kwami Dawson |
Participant in | Conference on Africa |
Military rank | field marshal |
Notable work | Africa Must Unite |
Member of | Phi Beta Sigma |
Award received | Lenin Peace Prize, Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo, Collar of the Order of the White Lion, Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta |
Ghana Place Names URL | https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames/places-in-perspective/birthplaces#h.gb1ksetz76dk |
Dr. Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 kavaare kyuu 1909-27 boŋŋo kyuu 1972) da e la Ghanaian pɔleteesa, political theorist, ane revolutionary. Ona da daŋ e a prime minister danweɛ soba ane Ghana yidaandɔɔ, naŋ de weɛ neŋ Gold Coast ka ba nyɛ sommeŋɛ yi Britain 1957 poɔ. Pan-Africanism, nɔmɛlmɛ neɛ, Nkrumah da e la mɛmba ko a organization of African unity ane neɛ naŋ di a Lenin peace prize yi a Soviet Union 1962 poɔ.
Yuomo pie ne ayi puoriŋ onaŋ wa be paaloŋ yobo tageraa o zannoo duoro saa, meɛrɛ o political philosophy ane nara ne o taa diasporic Pan-Africanists, Nkrumah leɛ wa la Gold Coast na piili o pɔletekal yɛlɛ naŋ e meŋɛ zɔɔ faabo. O meɛ la Nɔdaa Paate (CPP), naŋ nyɛ baabo weoŋ yi o unprecedented appeal to the common voter. O leɛ la prime minister 1952 poɔ ane o leɛ are la ana vuo na Ghana naŋ wa nyɛ sommeŋɛ yi Britain 1957 poɔ. 1960 poɔ, Ghanaians da neɛ la nu iri bɛgɛ gampaalaa kyɛ ɛlɛte Nkrumah Yidaandɔɔ.
O naaŋ da are la socialist ane nationalist. O kaa la national industrial ane faŋa yɛlɛ, a eŋ baabo ganzanne eŋɛ oŋ e kpeɛŋaa ane a zɛge Pan-Africanist yipɔge oŋ do saa. Nkrumah wagere, Ghana toŋ la international yelerre yaga African a decolonization wagere.
A zɔɔ maaroŋ wagere, Nkrumah da e la bone na a Wɛse naŋ maŋ boɔle ka authoritarian regime Ghana poɔ,