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Kwame Nkrumah

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(Politician)
Born21 September 1909
Nkroful, Gold Coast
Died27 April 1972
Bucharest, Romania
Alma materLincoln University, University of Pennsylvania, London School of Economics, University College London, Gray's Inn
Religionbaptized
ChildrenFrancis, Gamal, Samia, Sekou
SpouseFathia Rizk
PartyUnited Gold Coast Convention, Convention People's Party

Francis Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain. He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966.

Official narrative

In the "Decline and fall" section, Wikipedia used at least to note the 'claim' that the coup received support from the CIA. By May 2013, it instead noted that "Nkrumah believed that the CIA had supported the coup, but this accusation was based off forged evidence given to him by the KGB. No documentary evidence exists implicating the United States in the coup."

Problems

The claim that "no documentary evidence exists implicating the United States in the coup" is belied by US government published documents that (even in the unredacted parts) state that they were seeking to end Nkrumah's rule, and were discussing a coup d'etat.

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