Kwame Nkrumah spearheaded the Gold Coast’s independence movement and its transformation into modern-day Ghana. He inspired subsequent independence movements throughout Africa. He became Ghana’s first prime minister in 1952 and later its first president. His focus on public works and Pan-Africanism was initially popular, but an economic crisis and corruption sparked a coup in 1966.
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