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Nkrumah

[ uhn-kroo-muh, uhng-kroo- ]

noun

  1. ɲ· [kwah, -mee], 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.


Nkrumah

/ əŋˈːə /

noun

  1. NkrumahKwame19091972MGhanaianPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime ministerPOLITICS: head of state Kwame (ˈkwɑːmɪ). 1909–72, Ghanaian statesman, prime minister (1957–60) and president (1960–66). He led demands for self-government in the 1950s, achieving Ghanaian independence in 1957. He was overthrown by a military coup (1966)
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In 1960, with Nkrumah's encouragement, Andrée Blouin flew alone to DR Congo.

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They accused her of being, among many things, Nkrumah's mistress, Sékou Touré's agent and "the courtesan of all the African chiefs of state".

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James said the jihadists also expressed the view that if Sankara and Nkrumah had "lived long", then "the whole of Africa would have been a better place - nobody would have travelled from Africa to the West. People would have been travelling from the West to Africa".

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In a sign that the jihadists were also influenced by pan-Africanism, James said some of them invoked the names of revolutionaries like Burkina Faso's Thomas Sankara and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and told him that people should "rise up" against "bad leaders" and free themselves from "bondage".

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