Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast to independence and served as Ghana's first prime minister and first president. He was a leading advocate of Pan-Africanism and continental unity.
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Nkrumah led the Convention People's Party's campaign for immediate self-government and became Ghana's first prime minister on independence.
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An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962.
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He was a leading advocate of Pan-Africanism and continental unity.
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