Kwame Nkrumah
21 September 1909 - 27 April 1972
Was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. He was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana. An influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of theOrganization of African Unity and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.
