Nkrumah

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CIA Activities In Ghana - Ghana 1961
... "Kwame Nkrumah remains the pivotal factor in Ghana ... within the ruling Convention Peoples' Party (CPP) Nkrumah has replaced many of the moderate figures in the government ... "...Nkrumah will be successful in suppressing any elements within or without the CPP which might challenge his pre-eminence, at least over the next year or so ...
Samia Nkrumah - Chairwoman of CPP
... Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, daughter of Dr Kwame Nkrumah - Ghana’s first President - as the party’s Chairperson has rekindled hopes for the CPP’s future transformation into a credible and ... Samia Nkrumah holds a clear conviction in her charismatic father’s ideology ... When Nkrumah formed the CPP, he envisaged a socialist-based political machinery whose strength would be derived from the urban working class and rural peasantry ...
Arthur Nzeribe - Background
... He met Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana that year and started to work for Nkrumah in public relations ... After the fall of Nkrumah in 1966 he lost influence in Ghana ...
Gold Coast Legislative Election, 1951 - Background
... Nkrumah's aide and later Finance Minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah is credited with organizing the entire campaign while he (Nkrumah) was still in Fort James prison, detained by the colonial government ... Nkrumah duly won the Accra Central Municipal seat ...
CIA Activities In Ghana
... Though in jail, Kwame Nkrumah won the election by a landslide, and his party gained 34 out of 38 seats in the Legislative Assembly ... Nkrumah was released from prison, and was summoned by the British Governor Charles Arden-Clarke and asked to form a government ... President Nkrumah was not only the first African head of state to espouse Pan-Africanism, but he was also an anti-colonialist ...

Famous quotes containing the word nkrumah:

    “The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.”
    —Kwame Nkrumah (1900–1972)

    “It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”
    —Kwame Nkrumah (1900–1972)

    “Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.”
    —Kwame Nkrumah (1900–1972)