Background
N'Krumah, Kwame was born in 1909 in Nkroful, Gold Coast.
N'Krumah, Kwame was born in 1909 in Nkroful, Gold Coast.
Primary and secondary schools at Catholic institutions and at Achimota. awarded a teaching certificate, taught in Go! Coast until 1935. Lincoln University, Pennsylva" nia, BA in 1939. Attended Manuscripts and Archives courses uj Philosophy and Pedagogy at the University o Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, tnfts: M. Atatur • Marcus Garvey and Karl Marx.
1945, Cosecretary of the Fifth Pan-African Conference m Manchester. 1947, secretary of the United Go Coast Convention. 1949, organized his own partythe Convention People’s Party.
The Gold Coas became Ghana on 6 March 1957 and N’Kruma was its first President in April 1960.
An activist and a politician, N’Krumah based his action on the understanding that there is such a thing as an African social reality. This is confuted by the complementarity of a tradition, Christianity and/or Islam, and the legacy of a ntajor aculturation brought about by colonizal!°n. The process of a political liberation that he S|tuates between Senghor’s spiritualist socialism and Naher's nationalism is presented as an African practice of materialism. Its formalization ln Consciencism (1964) has been criticized as vague and questionable.