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Notable people with the surname include: 1  Kwame Nkrumah (1909â1972), the first Prime Minister and then first President of Ghana. 2  Fathia Nkrumah (1932â2007), wife of Kwame Nkrumah and First Lady of Ghana. 3  Samia Nkrumah (born 1960), Ghanaian journalist and politician. 4  Gamal Nkrumah (born 1959), Ghanaian journalist. Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong (born 1979), Ghanaian skier. See also. Nkrumah University, a university in Zambia. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a university in Kumasi, Ghana. Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute, a former educational institute in Winneba, Ghana. Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, a memorial in Accra, Ghana, dedicated to Kwame Nkrumah. FPSO Kwame Nkrumah, an oil storage and offloading vessel named after Kwame Nkrumah.
In the period of [African colonial independence] the beacon country from Africa was Ghana, first to achieve independence in 1957. The new nation's most influential figure was its prime minister, later president, Kwame Nkrumah. When Nkrumah was born in 1910, Ghana was still the Gold Coast, a British colony known for its plantations and for being the world's largest producer of cocoa.