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•The woman claims to have played a key role in the birth of Kwame Nkrumah •She says Nkrumah’s mother did not believe it initially when she was told that she had conceived •She worked with a fetish priest that took care of Nkrumah’s mother until he was born From available public …

Ghanaians are marking the 111th birthday of their first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah with series of programmes such as lectures and symposiums to commemorate the day which had been declared as a public holiday since 2009. Known as the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, the day is also set aside to reflect on the life …

His Spiritual Eminence Sheikh Mohammed Salis, the Grand Khadim and Khalifa of Sheikh Ibrahim Niass for Ghana Togo and Benin, who was the intermediary between Ghana’s first president, Dr kwame Nkrumah and Sheikh Ibrahim Niass when the latter was invited in the 1960’s  to provide spiritual interventions for the successful …

Ghana’s first President Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah had wanted to industrialize the nation within a generation and everything was on course until some disgruntled Ghanaian soldiers with the help of the CIA staged a coup on February 24, 1966, to oust him. There was jubilation in the country after the …

Kwame Nkrumah’s words about the coup which deposed him headed by Colonel Emmanuel Kwesi Kotoka and Major Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa: “I left Accra on 21st February 1966. I was seen off at the airport by most of the leading government and Party officials, and by service chiefs. I recall the …

Today in History, exactly 69 years ago, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was released from Prison on February 12, 1951 after his party, the Convention People’s Party (CPP), won the 1951 elections. The British assembled a selected commission of middle-class Africans, including all the Big Six except Nkrumah, to draft a new …

Fathia Nkrumah enjoys a near-mythical place in postcolonial Ghanaian history. Her skin colour mattered; she was not a black African. Her native country mattered; Egypt is ancient, biblical and mystical. Yet, the wife of Ghana’s first president is known exactly for that: being the wife of Ghana’s first president. As …

Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana is not Ghanaian but a Liberian born to a Liberian father known as Kofi Nwia, and Nyaniba, the woman we have been reading in the history books as his mother rather adopted Kwame Nkrumah when he first came to Ghana, A …