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September 21st, 1909: Kwame Nkrumah is born. The first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, he was an influential freedom fighter, political theorist, and revolutionary.
Nkrumah helped lead Ghana to independence and political stability, but he was an authoritarian and was deposed in 1966 by the National Liberation Council.
On This Day In History