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Kwame Nkrumah

1909 - 1972

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Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain. He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kwame Nkrumah has received more than 4,604,996 page views. His biography is available in 133 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 123 in 2019). Kwame Nkrumah is the 1,190th most popular politician (up from 1,560th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Ghana and the most popular Ghanaian Politician.

Kwame Nkrumah was the first president of Ghana. He led Ghana to independence from British colonial rule in 1957. He was then overthrown in a military coup in 1966.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 1,190 out of 19,576. Before him are Theodor Heuss, Artaxerxes III, Mahmud of Ghazni, Minamoto no Yoritomo, Emomali Rahmon, and Julius Streicher. After him are Astyages, Marwan II, Frederick I of Denmark, Wanli Emperor, Gwanghaegun of Joseon, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 11. Before him are Osamu Dazai, Simone Weil, Juliana of the Netherlands, Peter Drucker, Victor Borge, and U Thant. After him are Rita Levi-Montalcini, Mohammed V of Morocco, Virginia Apgar, Andrei Gromyko, Talal of Jordan, and Stanislaw Ulam. Among people deceased in 1972, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 13. Before him are M. C. Escher, Maria Goeppert Mayer, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Igor Sikorsky, and Ezra Pound. After him are Franz Halder, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Katherine Oppenheimer, Talal of Jordan, Paul Hausser, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 2 out of 162. Before him are Kofi Annan (1938). After him are Marcel Desailly (1968), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Abedi Pele (1964), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703), Jerry Rawlings (1947), Michael Essien (1982), John Atta Mills (1944), Peter Turkson (1948), and Peter Mensah (1959).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ghana

Among politicians born in Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 1. After him are Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Jerry Rawlings (1947), John Atta Mills (1944), John Kufuor (1938), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931), John Mahama (1958), Fred Akuffo (1937), Hilla Limann (1934), and Akwasi Afrifa (1936).

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