• DOI:10.1080/00064246.1974.11431459
• Corpus ID: 141785632

Kwame Nkrumah: His Years in America

@article{Clarke1974KwameNH,
  title={Kwame Nkrumah: His Years in America},
  author={John Henrik Clarke},
  journal={The Black Scholar},
  year={1974}
}

• J. Clarke
• Published 1 October 1974
• History, Political Science
• The Black Scholar

The Gold Coast (now Ghana), was a colony whose people never acknowledged their colonial status. They engaged the British in a series of wars, known as "The Ashanti Wars," that lasted over a hundred years. In these wars the people let it be known that they would never live peacefully under foreign domination. When Kwame Nkrumah was born in 1903, these military wars were over and a new kind of leader emerged in this country. E. Casely Hayford was the most outstanding of these