Kwame Nkrumah: References & Edit History
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Kwame Nkrumah, The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957); Bankole Timothy, Kwame Nkrumah (1957), an account of Nkrumah’s rise to power by a Sierra Leone journalist; Henry Bretton, The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah (1966), an unsympathetic account of the nature of Nkrumah’s political machine; Robert B. Fitch and Mary Oppenheimer, Ghana: End of an Illusion (1966), a Marxist evaluation, especially of Nkrumah’s economic policies; Samuel G. Ikoku, Le Ghana de Nkrumah (1971), a valuable account of the Cpp by a Nigerian who was one of Nkrumah’s leading ideologists; Geoffrey Bing, Reaping the Whirlwind (1968), a valuable account of Nkrumah’s regime by an Englishman who was one of his principal legal and political advisers; A.A. Afrifa, The Ghana Coup (1966), an account of Nkrumah’s policies by one of the leading organizers of the coup. Kwame Nkrumah: A Select Bibliography was published in 1976.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corrected typo in “Convention People's Party”. | Oct 02, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 28, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: BBC - Witness History - Kwame Nkrumah : Ousted from power. | Aug 18, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Pennsylvania University Archives - Kwame Nkrumah at Penn. | Apr 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The London School of Economics and Political Science - Kwame Nkrumah. | Feb 27, 2026 | ||
| Media added. | Sep 26, 2025 | ||
| Media revised | Jun 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Kwame Nkrumah: The Fallen and Forgotten Hero of African Nationalism (PDF). | May 31, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Link added. | Apr 08, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - Kwame Nkrumah : Ousted from power. | Nov 17, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Jul 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Kwame Nkrumah. | Jan 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford University - The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Kwame Nkrumah. | May 26, 2021 | ||
| Changed “black” to “Black” throughout article. | Sep 26, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast - Biography of Kwame Nkrumah. | Apr 24, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of Kwame Nkrumah. | Feb 27, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: South African History Online - Dr Kwame Nkrumah. | Jul 02, 2013 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 06, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford University - Biography of Kwame Nkrumah. | Jan 14, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Kwame Nkrumah. | Jan 14, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: PBS - Commanding Heights - Biography of Kwame Nkrumah. | Jan 14, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Africa Within - Biography of Kwame Nkrumah. | Jan 14, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |