Death and state funeral of Kwame Nkrumah information
April 1972 state funeral in Ghana
State funeral of Kwame Nkrumah
Date
April 27, 1972
Location
Ghana
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Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, died on April 27, 1972, in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.[1] Nkrumah died of an unknown but apparently incurable sickness. His body came back to Ghana where he had archived independence in 1957 and had ruled the country approximately 13 years. Thousands of Ghanaians attended the funeral to bury the president.[2][3]
Nkurumah disappeared in public eyes in Ghana since his overthrown by a coup d’état in February 1966 and had since that time been living in the Guinean capital of Conakry laying low.[3][1]
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