Kwame Nkrumah
Led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957, the first colony south of the Sahara to break free, and championed pan-Africanism.
| Lived | 1909 – 1972 |
| Known as | First leader of Ghana |
| Birthplace or main place | Accra |
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Who ruled these places in his lifetime
| Place | At birth (map of 1900) | At death (map of 1960) |
|---|---|---|
| Accra | Accra | Ghana |
From the border maps nearest to each date; borders are approximate.
Further reading
Contemporaries
| Lived | Person | |
|---|---|---|
| 1892 – 1975 | Haile Selassie I | Emperor of Ethiopia |
| c. 1897 – 1978 | Jomo Kenyatta | First president of Kenya |
| 1890 – 1970 | Charles de Gaulle | President of France |
| 1890 – 1969 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese revolutionary leader |
| 1874 – 1965 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister |
| 1889 – 1964 | Jawaharlal Nehru | First prime minister of India |
| 1918 – 2013 | Nelson Mandela | President of South Africa |
| 1918 – 1970 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | President of Egypt |
| 1879 – 1955 | Albert Einstein | Physicist |
| 1878 – 1953 | Joseph Stalin | Soviet leader |
Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.