Black man. Stand up.: Kwame Nkrumah

The first president of Ghana.

What up world!!! Today I’m going to inform you about a radical African who led the Gold Coast’s drive for independence from Britain and presided over its emergence as the new nation of Ghana. “When elections were held in 1951, Nkrumah’s CPP won almost all the seats open to direct election to the new Legislative Assembly. Dr. Nkrumah proved not only to be an effective grass-root organizer, but was also able to work effectively with the Gold Coast Governor, Sir Charles Arden-Clarke to form the structural basis of the new nation of Ghana that became independent in 1957. Ghana’s emergence as a member of the United Nations, the first Sub-Saharan African independent nation-state, was to open the flood gates. In the next decade most African colonies followed in her footsteps to independence.” [1] He was the first president of Ghana and the first prime minister of Ghana.