“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.” ― Kwame Nkrumah

1. Kwame Nkrumah PC led Ghana to independence from Britain in 1957 and served as its first prime minister and president. Nkrumah first gained power as leader of the colonial Gold Coast, and held it until he was deposed in 1966.
   

   
   

   
   

   

   
   
   Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. GHANAIAN statesman, the first President of Ghana, the foremost    exponent of African unity and Pan—Africanism, one of the founding fathers of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and a leading member of the Non-Aligned Movement.