Kwame Nkrumah was born on the 21st of September in the Gold Coast, which is present-day Ghana. The Gold Coast at the time was a British colony famous for being the world’s largest cocoa producer, the proceeds of which inevitably went to Britain while its population wallowed in poverty. Nkrumah was born to a goldsmith father and a retail trader. After finishing his education at a Roman Catholic missionary school he trained as an elementary school teacher. After teaching for a few years he was introduced to local politics in the Gold Coast.
He was ambitious and so he left the colony to pursue his education in the United States. Through relatives' contributions, he was able to leave the Gold Coast for New York in 1935. He arrived almost penniless and was hosted by other West African students in Harlem. Through a scholarship, he was admitted to Lincoln University on a scholarship. Lincoln University is the oldest black university in the United States and here he was introduced to the politics of race relations and pan-Africanism.
Unlike other African students who went abroad seeking to emulate the Europeans, Kwame forged relations with his fellow West African students and African Americans. He visited the churches in Harlem and Philadelphia where he was sometimes asked to preach. Here he cultivated his oratory skills that would prove instrumental in his later life.
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