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- NAME: Kwame Nkrumah
- OCCUPATION: World Leader, Prime Minister
- BIRTH DATE: September 21, 1909
- DEATH DATE: April 27, 1972
- EDUCATION: Achimota College, Lincoln University, University of Pennsylvania
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Nkroful, Ghana
- PLACE OF DEATH: Bucharest, Romania
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Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast's independence from Britain and presided over its emergence as the new nation of Ghana
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Kwame Nkrumah was born on September 21, 1909, in Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana), and shepherded the country in its struggle for independence from Great Britain. He went on to be named life president of both the nation and his politic party, until the army and police in Ghana seized power in 1966 and he found asylum in Guinea.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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