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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 4,292,902 page views. His biography is available in 123 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 120 in 2019). Kwame Nkrumah is the 1,564th most popular politician (down from 1,183rd 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 1,564 out of 15,577. Before him are Romanos I Lekapenos, Jeconiah, Shah Rukh, Ferdinand I of Naples, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, and Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria. After him are Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, Babrak Karmal, Gyges of Lydia, Ayşe Sultan, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Shalmaneser III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 15. Before him are Francis Bacon, Victor Borge, Nicholas Winton, U Thant, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Isaiah Berlin. After him are Mohammed V of Morocco, Li Xiannian, Ernst Gombrich, Errol Flynn, Talal of Jordan, and Benny Goodman. Among people deceased in 1972, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 14. Before him are Maria Goeppert Mayer, Ezra Pound, Igor Sikorsky, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Franz Halder, and Paul Hausser. After him are Erhard Milch, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Dino Buzzati, Andrei Tupolev, and Maurice Chevalier.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah ranks 2 out of 121. Before him are Kofi Annan (1938). After him are Abedi Pele (1964), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Marcel Desailly (1968), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703), Jerry Rawlings (1947), Peter Turkson (1948), Michael Essien (1982), Peter Mensah (1959), and John Kufuor (1938).

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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 Kufuor (1938), John Atta Mills (1944), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931), John Mahama (1958), Hilla Limann (1934), Fred Akuffo (1937), and Edward Akufo-Addo (1906).

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