# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kwame-nkrumah
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:37:18.575Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/kwame-nkrumah"
name: "Kwame Nkrumah"
slug: "kwame-nkrumah"
description: "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."
tagline: "Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1909-09-21"
deathDate: "1972-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           25.862496
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  profileCompleteness:  60
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.