Kwame Nkrumah


Bro. Nkrumah (1909-72), first prime minister (1957-60) and president (1960-66) of
Ghana. A firm believer in African liberation, Nkrumah pursued a radical pan-African 
policy, playing a key role  in the formation of the Organization of African Unity 
in 1963. As head of government, he was less successful, and as time passed he 
became increasingly dictatorial. Finally overthrown by the military in 1966, he 
spent his last years in exile, dying in Bucharest, Romania, on April 27, 1972.