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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.
Ghana was the first black African country to become independent. In 1960, Nkrumah declared Ghana a republic and himself president for life in 1964. He banned all opposition parties. He was deposed in 1966 by a military coup while on a trip to Peking.