The Reader Who Became a Revolutionary: Kwame Nkrumah

The Reader Who Became a Revolutionary: Kwame Nkrumah

MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN RECORDER — Before he freed a nation, Kwame Nkrumah was a young reader who discovered that ideas could be as powerful as armies and that liberation had to be spoken in a language people recognized as their own.

The Reader Who Became a Revolutionary: Kwame Nkrumah – The Windy City Word

By Alex Mason | Minnesota Spokesman Recorder Kwame Nkrumah: How a Young Reader from the Gold Coast Became the Father of African Independence A profile of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah traces his journey from a colonial classroom in the Gold Coast to Lincoln University, to leading Ghana to become the first sub-Saharan African nation to win independence, and to shaping Pan-Africanism as a movement that still resonates today. Before he became the face of a nat…