On his birth anniversary (April 22), it’s worth taking a closer look at how this revolutionary from distant Russia became a ...

Following the overthrow of Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, in a coup led by Major General E.K. Kotoka and Lieutenant General J.A. Ankrah, a former close associate has shared a ...

Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from ...

President Petr Pavel of the Czech Republic during his three-day State Visit to Ghana, visited the resting place of Ghana’s ...

Their target; Ghana’s then president, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, who was once hailed as a hero of African independence before being accused of betraying democracy. A black-and-white photograph ...

Ghana no longer has evening sheets. Kwame Nkrumah, the country’s founding president, introduced an Accra evening paper in the late ’40s to fight colonial rule and give a voice to the local ...

It was the movements of workers, peasants and the radical intelligentsia that provided the social context for the Bandung ...

In a famous speech to the Organization for African Unity in 1963, Ghanaian prime minster Kwame Nkrumah called for economic independence: “It is impossible to think of economic development and ...

Mamdani, whose father is a radical professor at Columbia (oh, great) and whose mother is a has-been movie director who boycotts Israel, gets his middle name from Kwame Nkrumah, a progressive anti ...

BALTIMORE — It’s been ten years since protests rocked Baltimore in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death. One voice that emerged ...