sentences:  Fathia Nkrumah was the mother of three young children when her husband was overthrown in Ghana's first successful military coup d'état on February 24, 1966.She had to take her children to Cairo, Egypt, to be raised there while her husband went into exile.Fathia died on May 31, 2007 at Badrawy Hospital in Cairo due to a stroke after a period of illness.