Harin bam na Kulungugu ya kasance wani yunƙurin kisan gilla da aka yi wa Kwame Nkrumah, Shugaban ƙasar Ghana. A ranar 1 ga Agustan 1962, Kwame Nkrumah ya tsaya a Kulungugu, ƙaramin tashar tashar shiga cikin gundumar Pusiga a Bawku ta Gabas ta Tsakiya. An samu fashewar bam da nufin kashe Shugaban. Nkrumah na zuwa ne daga wata ganawa da shugaba Maurice Yaméogo a Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso, a lokacin da ake kira Upper Volta. Taron ya kasance don rattaba hannu kan takardu da suka shafi gina babban aikin samar da wutar lantarki a Volta wanda zai zama Tafkin Volta. A lokacin tafiya zuwa Ghana, ruwan sama kamar da bakin kwarya ya haifar da matsaloli ga ayarin kan munanan hanyoyin kasar. Tawagar shugaban kasar ta tsaya a wajen garin Bawku don gaisawa da 'yan makaranta da suka yi ta kadawa da kuma hango Shugaban kasa. Wata ‘yar makaranta, Elizabeth Asantewaa, ta tunkari shugaban da adon furanni, ta samu munanan raunuka lokacin da bam din ya tashi. Mai gadinsa, Kyaftin Samuel Buckman, ya ceci shugaban, wanda a hankali ya yi kokawa da shugaban kasa bayan da ya ji tikin na’urar da ta dace.