Ghana's Independence Hero Was Overthrown While Visiting China

Added: 2026-05-05

Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president and the father of African independence, was overthrown in a military coup on February 24, 1966, while he was on a peace mission to Vietnam and China; he spent six years in exile in Guinea before dying alone in a Romanian hospital in 1972, never returning to the nation he had liberated from colonial rule.