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8 unusual facts about Kwame Nkrumah


Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine

In the early sixties, the President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah sent Dr. Oku Ampofo and others to China to benefit from the Chinese experience in herbal medicine.

Charles Odamtten Easmon

Charles Odamtten "Charlie" Easmon attended the prestigious Achimota School alongside future Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah.

In 1964, Kwame Nkrumah appointed Easmon as the first Chief Medical Officer of Ghana.

Effiakuma

It was built in the early 1960s by the then president of the country Kwame Nkrumah.

Ghana Airways

Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah was accused of being too aligned to the West, and hence he entered into agreements with the Soviets and on 18 August six Ilyushin Il-18s, at a cost of ₤670,000 each, were ordered.

Ghana at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Ghana sent one athlete, Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, to compete in one discipline, alpine skiing.

Prenasalized consonant

Ghana's politician Kwame Nkrumah had a prenasalized stop in his name, as does the capital of Chad, N'Djamena (African prenasalized stops are often written with apostrophes in Latin script transcription although this may sometimes indicate syllabic nasals instead).

Zuarungu

The Nkrumah government established a meat factory in Zuarungu, which was a core economic benefit for the people.


1948 Accra Riots

The immediate aftermath of the riots included the arrest on 12 March 1948 of "the Big Six" - Kwame Nkrumah and other leading activists in the UGCC party (namely Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, Edward Akufo-Addo, J. B. Danquah, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, and William Ofori Atta), who were held responsible for orchestrating the disturbances and were detained, being released a month later.

Commonwealth Televiews

Topics included the Arts Council of Great Britain, life in contemporary Harlow, an interview with Kwame Nkrumah, who was Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), nuclear power featuring Robert McKenzie's interview with John Cockcroft and an interview of Robert Scott, Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, by Matthew Halton.

Edward Akufo-Addo

After independence (1962–1964), Akufo-Addo was a Supreme Court Judge (One of three Judges who sat on Treason trial involving Tawia Adamafio, Ako Adjei and three others after the Kulungugu bomb attack on President Kwame Nkrumah and for doing so was dismissed with fellow judges for finding some of the accused not guilty.

George Padmore

As Carol Polsgrove has shown in Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause, Padmore and his allies in the 1930s and 1940s—among them C. L. R. James, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the Gold Coast's Kwame Nkrumah and South Africa's Peter Abrahams—saw publishing as a strategy for political change.

Operation Guitar Boy

On February 24, 1966, a military coup took place, with the military of Ghana overthrowing the Convention People's Party (CPP) government of the Republic of Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah.


see also

Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute

The Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute (officially known as the Kwame Nkrumah Institute of Economics and Political Science or Winneba ideological Institute) was an educational body in Winneba founded to promote socialism in Ghana as well as the decolonization of Africa.