Nkrumah, Kwame (1909–1972),
anticolonial politician, Pan-Africanist, socialist, and first president of independent Ghana, was born Francis Nwia Kofi Nkrumah in Nkroful, Nzima village, in Britain’s Gold Coast colony (now in southwest Ghana). There is some dispute about the exact date of his birth. In the Akan tradition, Kwame is a day name indicating a male born on a Saturday, and Nkrumah notes in his autobiography (1957) that his family believed he was born on a Saturday in the middle of September, most likely the eighteeenth.The priest who baptized him, however, recorded his date of birth as 21 September ... ...
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