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- Official Site: Kwame Nkrumah
- Wikipedia: Kwame Nkrumah
- PBS: Commanding Heights: Kwame Nkrumah
- University of Pennsylvania: Kwame Nkrumah At Penn: A Digital Exhibition
- Socialist Worker: "What is the Real Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah?" (March 17, 2007)
- CooperativeResearch.org: Timeline of Kwame Nkrumah
- BBC News: "Kwame Nkrumah's Vision of Africa" (September 14, 2000)
Kwame Nkrumah Background and Profiles
Fight for Independence
- Web Chronology Project: Ghana Independence
- BBC News: "The Architect of Ghana's Independence" (March 2, 2007)
- AfricaSpeaks: "Kwame Nkrumah's Contribution to Decolonization..." (September 16, 2004)
- TIME: "Sunrise on the Gold Coast" (February 9, 1953)
Leader of Ghana
- BBC News: 1957: Ghana Celebrates Independence
- GhanaHomePage: "Useful Lessons From Ghana's Political Past" (May 2, 2007)
- Fox News: "Ghana at 50 Looks Back With Pride and Pain" (March 6, 2007)
- Reuters: "Ghana's Nkrumah Set Trend for Big Africa Leaders" (March 5, 2007)
- Vision Journal: "The Ghana Coup of 24 February 1966" (March 21, 2006)
Pan-Africanism
- Wikipedia: Pan-Africanism and the Organization of African Unity
- The Statesman: "Evaluating Nkrumah- the Pan-Africanist - in Ghana's Political History" (June 27, 2007)
- African Genesis: "The Making of a Pan-African: Kwame Nkrumah in America" (February 10, 2002)
- Binghamton University: "Pan Africanism and the Origins of Globalization" (November, 2001)
- New Internationalist: "Simply... A History of Pan-Africanism" (August, 2000)
Kwame Nkrumah Media
Videos
- Google Video: Kwame Nkrumah (Time 19:55)
- YouTube: Kwame Nkrumah Speech (Time 0:41)
- YouTube: Dr. Kwame Nkrumah - The Liberation Struggle (Time 03:54)
Images
- Google Image Search: Kwame Nkrumah
- Yahoo! Image Search: Kwame Nkrumah
- Live Image Search: Kwame Nkrumah
- Flickr: Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah Books and Research
- African Studies Quarterly: "African Political Cultures and the Problems of Government" (Spring, 2004)
- Binghamton University: "Nkrumahism and the Triple Heritage in the Shadow of Globalization" (March, 2002)
- Marxists Internet Archive: "African Socialism Revisited" (1967)
- Marxists Internet Archive: Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of imperialism (1965)
- Fordham University: "I Speak of Freedom" (1961)
- University of Pennsylvania: "Education and Nationalism in Africa" (November, 1943) (2.44MB)
Kwame Nkrumah Blogs and Message Boards
- Assata Speaks Forum: Axioms Of Kwame Nkrumah
- Rasta Livewire: Continental Government for Africa: by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (1st President of Ghana)
- Rastafari Speaks: Kwame Nkrumah and One-Party State
- Teaching in Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah Lectures, Part 2
Kwame Nkrumah Timeline
- 1909: September 21, Kwame Nkrumah is born in the Gold Coast
- 1930: Graduates from the Achimota School
- 1935: Attends Lincoln University in the United States
- 1942-1943: Earns graduate degrees in education and philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania
- 1945: Organized the 5th Pan-African Conference in Manchester, England
- 1945: December, Kwame Nkrumah organizes the West African National Secretariat
- 1947: Nkrumah is invited to serve as General Secretary to the United Gold Coast Convention
- 1948: February, After student protests turn violent, Nkrumah and other UGCC leaders are arrested
- 1948: Nkrumah is released and begins hitchhiking, campaigning for "self-government now"
- 1949: Organizes the Convention People's Party
- 1950: January, Nkrumah initiates a campaign of "Positive Action" against the Colonial Government
- 1950: Nkrumah is arrested and sentenced to three years in prison
- 1951: February 5-10, in Ghana's first election, Nkrumah wins by a landslide
- 1951: February 12, Nkrumah is released from prison
- 1957: March 6, Ghana is officially declared independent
- 1963: Nkrumah is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union
- 1964: After much repressive legislation, Nkrumah is named the Life President of Ghana
- 1966: While on a visit to Vietnam, A CIA backed coup overthrows Nkrumah's government
- 1966: Nkrumah goes into exile, working for the cause of African Unity from various nations abroad
- 1972: April 27, Kwame Nkrumah dies of skin cancer
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