Kwame nkrumah biography book

Kwame Nkrumah, leader of the Ghana independence movement, endured a life of hardship in his quest for African liberation.

In “The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah” a personal account of his life is given chronologically, beginning with his birth in 1909 and finishing with the year of Ghana’s independence, 1957. Essentially the book serves as a platform for Nkrumah to explain how he went about achieving independence for the Gold Coast.

Repeatedly Nkrumah stresses that people are only truly free when they have the ability to control their own lives. The book is important in that it allows the reader to experience firsthand the struggle against colonialism by reliving Nkrumah’s fascinating life.

Kwame nkrumah

Indeed, by the end of the book the reader wholeheartedly supports Nkrumah and his fight for freedom.
The book begins with Nkrumah’s birth and several chapters are spent describing his happy childhood. He takes care in describing the cult