Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 Satumba 1909-27 Afrilu 1972) ɗan siyasan Ghana ne kuma mai son kawo sauyi. Shi ne Firayim Minista na farko kuma shugaban kasar Ghana, bayan ya jagoranci Gold Coast zuwa samun 'yanci daga Turawan mulkin mallaka a shekarar 1957. Nkrumah ya kasance babban dan gwagwarmaya na nuna wariyar launin fata a Afirka, Nkrumah ya kasance memba ne na kungiyar Hadin Kan Afirka kuma ya samu lambar yabo ta Lenin daga Tarayyar Soviet a shekarar 1962. Bayan shekaru goma sha biyu a kasashen waje yana neman ilimi, bunkasa falsafar siyasarsa da shiryawa tare da wasu masu fada aji a Afirka, Nkrumah ya koma Gold Coast don fara aikinsa na siyasa a matsayin mai neman 'yanci na kasa. Ya kafa Jam'iyyar Mutane ta Yarjejeniyar, wacce ta sami nasarar cikin sauri ta hanyar kiran ta da ba a taba yin ta ba ga masu jefa kuri'a gama gari. Ya zama Firayim Minista a 1952 kuma ya ci gaba da rike matsayin lokacin da Ghana ta ayyana yancin kai daga Birtaniyya a 1957. A shekarar 1960, mutanen Gana suka amince da sabon kundin tsarin mulki suka kuma zabi Nkrumah Shugaba.