Atta kwami biography of mahatma

President walk up to Ghana (2012–2017; since 2025)

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Gandhi and West Africa: Exploring the Affinities

There are numerous facts and instances that highlight just how much of an impact Gandhi’s passive resistance campaigns in India and South Africa had in West Africa.

Gandhi with the leaders of the non-violent resistance movement in South Africa. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

“There is however no hope of avoiding the catastrophe” (of increased racial bitterness)  “unless the spirit of exploitation that at present dominates the nations of the West is transmuted into that of real helpful service, or unless the Asiatic and African races understand that they cannot be exploited without their co-operation, to a large extent voluntary, and thus understanding, withdraw such co-operation.”
– Gandhi in Young India, March 18, 1926

Q: “For some years Britain would continue certain subject territories like Gold Coast. Would Mr Gandhi object?”
A: “I would certainly object”.
– Gandhi in reply to a question in London, October 31, 1931

Mahatma Gandhi, born in 1869, was shot dead in India on January 30, 1948. “We too mourned his death,” wrote Kwame Nkrumah, “for he had inspired us deeply with his political thought, notably with his adherence to non-violent resistance.” As one writer put it, “The message cabled by the National Counci

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Kwame Nkrumah

Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)

Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain.^[1] He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962.^[2]

After twelve years abroad pursuing higher education, developing his political philosophy, and organizing with other diasporic pan-Africanists, Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast to begin his political career as an advocate of national independence.^[3] He formed the Convention People's Party, which achieved rapid success through its unprecedented appeal to the common voter.^[4] He became Prime Minister in 1952 and retained the position when he led Ghana to achieve independence from Britain in 1957, a first in sub-saharan Africa at the time. In 1960, Ghanaians approved a new constitution and elected Nkrumah President.^[5]

His administration was primarily socialist as well a