Historical Figure

Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972)

Date
1909–1972
Country

Evidence type: Documented history

Leader of the Gold Coast’s movement for independence from Britain, who headed Ghana from independence in 1957 until a coup in 1966.

Example: his studies in the United States, at Lincoln University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he read the literature of socialism and of nationalism, including Marcus Garvey.