Kwame Nkrumah’s quest for Pan Africanism: from independence leader to deposed despot

On February 12, 1951, Francis Nwia-Kofi “Kwame” Nkrumah walked out of James Fort Prison to become the first Prime Minister of the Gold Coast. After a landslide election, Nkrumah and his Convention People’s Party (CPP) sought to end British imperial rule in the Gold Coast and create a socialist Pan A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawson, Autumn Anne
Other Authors: Dehner, George
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Wichita State University 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3731