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The Early Life of Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah was born on 21 September 1909 in the village of Nkroful in Nzima in the Gold Coast, what was then a British West African Colony. Starting at a young age, Nkrumah began to show signs of a great interest in reading and the quest for knowledge. He attended a Roman Catholic primary school and, in 1926, attended the Prince of Wales College at Achimoto, where he trained and met the criteria for his teaching qualifications. Nkrumah left the Gold Coast in 1935 to study in the United States. He was determined to obtain advanced education, which he believed to be the most important thing in order to overcome the Gold Coast’s problems. It was his goal to eventually return to the Gold Coast and help free his people from economic, social and political oppression. By the time Kwame Nkrumah left the United States in May, 1945, he achieved B