Biography of Kwame Nkrumah

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Kwame Nkrumah was born on the twenty-first (21st) of September nineteen nine (1909) in Gold Coast (now Ghana) and died the twenty-seven (27) of April nineteen seventy-two (1972) in Bucharest.
He comes from a modest background: his father is a goldsmith and his mother is a tradesman.
He first begins studying in Accra (capital of Ghana), then goes to the United States of America at Lincoln University to finish a bachelor in economics and sociology.

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[...] Biography of Kwame Nkrumah I. Biography Kwame Nkrumah was born on the twenty-first (21st) of September nineteen nine (1909) in Gold Coast (now Ghana) and died the twenty-seven of April nineteen seventy-two (1972) in Bucharest. He comes from a modest background: his father is a goldsmith and his mother is a tradesman. He first begins studying in Accra (capital of Ghana), then goes to the United States of America at Lincoln University to finish a bachelor in economics and sociology. [...]

[...] His vision of a unified Africa gradually declines and on 24 February 1966, a military putsch will destitute Nkrumah from power. His vision of Pan-Africanism was labelled revolutionary by the moderate Pan- Africanists who created the Organization of African Unity (OAU). We can see that, despite a sudden decline to Nkrumah, his vision of African solidarity still goes on through this organization even though it becomes more moderate. III. This ideology now Pan-Africanism is still relevant today in Africa. Samia Nkrumah, Nkrumah's daughter spoke up during the ‘Nkrumah Memorial Day' on September 21st and argued that ‘Africa not should unite, but it's a must'. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, the ideology of pan-Africanism has envolove from Nkrumah time. In his time, the main goal of pan-Africanism was to give back its freedom and independence to colonized countries of Africa (in particular Ghana), now people desire to take back their economic independence more than the politic one once before being taken by Great Britain. It is important to be aware that lots of countries in Africa are still today under the influence of ‘developed countries', and politics spotlight Nkrumah's ideas to continue unifying African countries to defend themselves against more powerful countries. [...]

[...] Finally, in nineteen sixty (1960), Nkrumah becomes the first president of Ghana and launched the process of independence on the African continent. II. Keys of ideology Pan-Africanism was born in 1900 in London at the first pan-African Convention ruled by the four founding fathers: Edward Wilmot Bilyden, Firmin Atenor, Henry Silvester Williams and Benito Sylvain. Pan-Africanism has a global and political relevance due to Nkrumah. His ideology was a desire for independence of the African continent that was colonized by Great Britain. [...]