Ghana: How Kwame Nkrumah Used Metaphor As a Political Weapon Against Colonialism

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Kwame Nkrumah (1912-1972), a pioneering pan-Africanist and Ghana's independence leader (1957-1966), is regarded by many as one of Africa's greatest politicians . Commentators, historians and scholars have given him accolades such as 'the Black Star', 'Africa's Man of Destiny' and 'the Pride of Africa'. Twenty years ago, the BBC's African listeners voted him as Africa's Man of the Millennium.

Nkrumah was one of the main catalysts of the African independence revolution in the 1950s and 1960s and his political rhetoric influenced world affairs in the 20th century.

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