Nkrumah Kwame

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N0120500 (ən-kro͞o′mə, əng-), Kwame Originally Francis Nwia Kofi. 1909-1972. Ghanaian politician. Instrumental in achieving Ghana's independence from Great Britain (1957), he became president (1960) but was deposed in a coup d'état (1966).