# 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)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/kwame-nkrumah

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **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:** 78.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.1 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 25.9 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #166

## Topics
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- [কোয়ামে এনক্রুমাহ](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9)
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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah)
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