Nkrumah

American  

[uhn-kroo-muh, uhng-kroo-] / ənˈkru mə, əŋˈkru- /

noun

1. Kwame 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.

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Nkrumah British  

/ əŋˈkruːmə /

noun

1. Kwame (ˈkwɑːmɪ). 1909–72, Ghanaian statesman, prime minister (1957–60) and president (1960–66). He led demands for self-government in the 1950s, achieving Ghanaian independence in 1957. He was overthrown by a military coup (1966)

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Nkrumah

He’d sought answers to his country’s racial problems through scholarship, sociology, pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism, sci-fi, Socialism, Communism and finally expatriation, to Ghana, a new nation with a new president, Du Bois ally Kwame Nkrumah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The royal treatment he got from Nkrumah couldn’t have contrasted more with what he and other black Americans had experienced over the turbulent times in which they all had lived.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka was among a group of officers who deposed Nkrumah in 1966.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

Black-and-white photographs of the revolution’s key players, including the Ghanaian nationalist leader and later president Kwame Nkrumah, lined the walls alongside images of smiling schoolchildren, soldiers and archival newspapers.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

Traveling through Africa, he had recently interviewed Prime Minister Nkrumah.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey