Kwame Nkrumah
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Kwame Nkrumah, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from the United Kingdom
Portrait of Nkrumah
Nkrumah in the Lincoln University yearbook, 1942
60 Burghley Road, Kentish Town, London, where Nkrumah lived when in London between 1945 and 1947
Red cockerel, "Forward Ever, Backward Never": Convention People's Party logo and slogan
Joseph Arthur Ankrah
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Joseph Arthur Ankrah was a Ghanaian army general who was the second head of state of Ghana from 1966 to 1969 as chairman of the National Liberation Council. He was Ghana's first military head of state
Kwame Nkrumah
…violent coup d'état led by the national military and police forces, with backing from the civil service deposing his authority. The conspirators, led by Joseph Arthur Ankrah, named themselves the National Liberation Council and ruled as a military government for three years. Nkrumah did not learn of the coup until he arrived…
Ankrah in 1967