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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.
It is therefore a slightly extended territory which becomes independent in 1957 under Nkrumah's leadership. A new name of great resonance in African history is adopted - Ghana (although the ancient kingdom of that name was far to the north, in present-day Mali). Independence: from1957 Nkrumah, well aware of his status at the head of the first west African nation to emerge from colonialism, dreams of leading the continent into a Marxist future. This requires a republic, which Ghana becomes in 1960 with Nkrumah as president for life. It also needs only one political party, the CPP.