📍Nkroful, Western Region, Ghana
1909 – 1966“I was born Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma Nkrumah on the 21st of September 1909 in Nkroful, a small village in the Western Region of the Gold Coast — the colony that became Ghana. My mother was a petty trader and my father a goldsmith, and the village gave me the West African communal values that I later tried to scale into a pan-African political philosophy. I studied in America and England, returned to the Gold Coast, was imprisoned by the British, won elections from prison, and became the first Prime Minister and then President of independent Ghana in 1957 and 1960. Ghana's independence was Africa's independence — the proof that colonialism could be ended by Africans themselves. I was overthrown in a military coup in 1966 while I was visiting Hanoi. I died in exile in 1972.”
🗺️ Approximate location today
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Sources: Biney, A. The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah (2011), Palgrave Macmillan; Nkrumah, K. Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957), Nelson