Kwame Nkrumah

1909- 1972

Ghanian Politician

African political leader Kwame Nkrumah was educated both in the United States and at the London School of Economics, in England.

In 1949 he returned to Africa and formed a organization dedicated to "self-government now!" He became the first Prime Minister of Ghana in 1957 but was overthrown in a military coup in 1966.