Seif Mansy
Social
Mrs. Nadean Khedr
17 February 2014
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah was the first leader of the Gold Coast. He was the man who convinced and talked with the others for independence; he was the first president; he was both a hero and an enemy. This man's life is a story that worth telling.
Kwame Nkrumah was born on 21st September, 1909 in Nkroful a small coastal village, in the south of Ghana. In that small village, in the south of Ghana. In that smallvillage, K. Nkrumah lived his early years and was taught; in that small town, he learned how to speak Nzema (the language of the Akan tribe ) and English.
K. Nkrumah studied in his village, Nkroful, until 1924. In 1925 he move to Accra where he studied at Achimota School to become a teacher, he graduated in 1935. Then he worked as a teacher; he worked in several schools in Axim. During these 5 years he was saving money to continue his education in the US. In 1935, he got his visa and left for the US. In the US, he enrolled at the Lincoln University of Pennsylvania.
Nkrumah officially founded the CPP to help liberate Ghana from the colonialist political oppression on June 12, 1949. The members were comprised of former members of the Committee on Youth Organization (CYO), which was previously a part of the UGCC. Nkrumah declared, “I am happy to be able to tell you that the CYO, owing to the present political tension, has decided to transform itself into a fully-fledged political party with the object of promoting the fight for full self-government." In Nkrumah’s eyes, the only way that the citizens of Ghana would be able to take control of their government would be through political unity. He publicly voiced that in his opinion a united Ghana was a necessity in order for ...
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...ough the domino effect. At the same time the economy in Ghana had collapsed and the foreign exchange and government’s reserves disappeared. The Unemployment rate rose dramatically and food prices skyrocketed. The food prices were up over 250 percent from the year 1957 and up sixty-six percent in 1965.14 Later on there were huge food shortages that effected every area and individual in the country.
Thus on February 24, 1966, Colonel Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka who was a member of the National Liberation Council (NLC), which was the opposing force to Nkrumah, took over the government. The takeover was conducted under the code name Operation Cold Chop. The United States and Ghana’s neo-colonialists supported this operation which then caused the parliament to be dissolved and outlawed Nkrumah’s political party, and also dismissed Nkrumah as President of Ghana’s First Republic.
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