# Kwame Nkrumah

> He led the Gold Coast to independence in 1957, making Ghana the first sub-Saharan African nation to break from colonial rule - then spent a decade trying to forge the entire continent into a single socialist state under his own presidency before a coup ended the experiment.

*Ghanaian politician (1909-1972)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Ghana
- **Born:** 1909-09-21
- **Died:** 1972-04-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Nkrumah spent twelve years abroad sharpening a pan-Africanist philosophy before returning home to form the Convention People's Party, which rode unprecedented common-voter appeal to power. He became Prime Minister in 1952 and in 1957 steered Ghana to independence, a first south of the Sahara. As president from 1960, he built schools and industries, hosted liberation movements, and co-founded the Organisation of African Unity - all while pushing a vision of continent-wide socialist consolidation with himself at the helm. An alleged assassination plot and economic trouble hardened him: by 1964 Ghana was a one-party state, Nkrumah president for life, the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute spreading his doctrine of Nkrumaism. In 1966 a coup deposed him; he lived out his years as honorary co-president of Guinea. The BBC named him African of the millennium in 1999.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 81.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 16.1 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 26.0 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 100.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
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## Timeline
- **2004** - Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo
- **1972** - Died
- **1965** - Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- **1963** - Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- **1961** - Collar of the Order of the White Lion
- **1909** - Born

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