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The Kulungugu bomb attack was a failed assassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah, the President of Ghana. On 1 August 1962, Kwame Nkrumah stopped in Kulungugu, a minor port of entry in the Pusiga District in Upper East Bawku. [1] [2] [3] There was a bomb explosion aimed at killing the President.
In 1961, Nkrumah delivered a speech called "I Speak Of Freedom". During this speech he talked about how "Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world". [ 271 ] He mentions how Africa is a land of "vast riches" with mineral resources from that "range from gold and diamonds to uranium and petroleum". [ 271 ]
During its construction, the first stone was laid by Kwame Nkrumah on 18 February 1961. The institute was designed to promote national independence, for almost all Ghanaians in the first Nkrumah government were trained in the United Kingdom or United States. [1] The institute's Director was Kodwo Addison, a prominent Ghanaian activist.
On 8 March 1948, some teachers and students demonstrated against the detention of the Big Six but these demonstrators were dismissed. Upon his release, Dr. Nkrumah set up a secondary school, Ghana National College in Cape Coast, for the dismissed staff and students.
The Founders' Day (which was formerly spelt as 'Founder's Day') was observed in Ghana on 21 September in year each to mark the birthdate [12] of Ghana's first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, [13] and in remembrance of the struggle for independence by Ghana's brave "Big Six" as the name implies. [14]
Nkrumah was elected leader of Government Business in the Legislative Assembly in February 1951 and released from prison to take up this role. Walter Sisulu , Secretary General of the African National Congress sent a letter of congratulations which was published in the Accra Evening News , a newspaper founded by Nkrumah on 28 February 1951.
Nkrumah defined his belief system as "the ideology of a New Africa, independent and absolutely free from imperialism, organized on a continental scale, founded upon the conception of one and united Africa, drawing its strength from modern science and technology and from the traditional African belief that the free development of each is the ...
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister and first President of Ghana. Nkrumah had run governments under the supervision of the British government through Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor-General. His first government under colonial rule started from 21 March 1952 until independence.