We explore the life of the great pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah. After spending a year in a British colonial jail for organising a ‘positive action’ campaign against British rule in Ghana, he was released on this day in 1951.
As the first prime minister of Ghana, he led his country to independence in 1957. But his vision extended far beyond Ghana’s borders, and he believed that independence was meaningless unless it was accompanied by the total liberation and creation of a United States of Africa.
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