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Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, died on April 27, 1972, in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. [1] Nkrumah died of an unknown but apparently incurable sickness. His body came back to Ghana where he had achieved independence in 1957 and had ruled the country approximately 13 years.
Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary.
Kwame Nkrumah: Convention People's Party: 5 years, 238 days 5 years, 238 days 1 Deposed 6 John Mahama: National Democratic Congress: 4 years, 167 days 4 years, 167 days 1 Natural expiration 7 John Atta Mills: National Democratic Congress: 3 years, 199 days 3 years, 199 days 1 Death 8 Joseph Arthur Ankrah: Military: 3 years, 37 days
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]
On February 24, 1966, the government of Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in a military coup d'état. Leaders of the established coup, including army officers Colonel E.K. Kotoka, Major A. A. Afrifa, Lieutenant General (retired) J. A. Ankrah, and Police Inspector General J.W.K. Harlley, justified their takeover by charging that the CPP administration was abusive and corrupt.
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.
The country's first leader and prime minister was Kwame Nkrumah [1] of the Convention People's Party (CPP). [2] He held that post from the date of Ghana's independence – 6 March 1957 to 1 July 1960, when a new constitution came into effect that abolished the position.
On 30 April, three days after his death, Kwame Nkrumah returned to Africa. The Guinean government had arranged for his body to be preserved, placed in a special coffin and flown to Conakry. For two days, on 13 and 14 May 1972, funeral ceremonies were held in Conakry, attended by representatives of liberation movements, governments, progressive ...