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Kwmae Nkrumah is born in Ghana
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Moved to America and goes to Lincoln University in 1935
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Graduacting from Lincolin University
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Moves to London and He helped to organize the Fifth Pan-African Congress
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Wrote his first book, "Towards Colonial Freedom"
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Returned to Gold Coast and became General Secretary of United Gold Coast Convention
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Formed Convention Peoples Party with the Committee on Youth Organization
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Arrested, following riots resulting from declaration of Positive Action
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Won the election while in prison with a vote of 22,780 from the 23,122 ballots cast, to take the Accra Central seat. He was released later from prison in the same month to form new Government
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Won the elections leading to independence of Ghana. With him being the first president
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Declared Ghana a Republic
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Target of an assassination attempt at Kulungugu in the Northern Region of Ghana.
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Died of Cancer in Romania
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Kwame Nkrumah is buried in his mome towm in Ghana
