Kwame_Nkrumah
Kogin Zinariya
Mahaifinsa, Opanyin Kofi Nwiana Ngolomah, ya fito ne daga Nkroful, na ɗan asalin kabilar Akan ne. Bayanai sun nuna cewa Ngolomah ya tsaya a Tarkwa-Nsuaem kuma ya yi kasuwanci a harkar gwal.Bugu da kari, wadanda suka nemi shawararsa kan al'adun gargajiya da lamuran cikin gida sun girmama Ngolomah saboda nasihar sa. Ya mutu a shekarar 1927. Kwame shine kadai ɗa ga mahaifiyarsa. Mahaifiyar Nkrumah ta tura shi makarantar firamare ta wata bishara ta mabiya darikar Katolika da ke Half Assini, inda ya tabbatar da cewa dalibi ne mai kwazo. Wani malamin Katolika na Roman Katolika mai suna George Fischer an ce ya yi tasiri sosai kan ilimin makarantar firamare. Duk da cewa mahaifiyarsa, mai suna Elizabeth Nyanibah (1876 / 77–1979), daga baya ya bayyana shekarar haihuwarsa a shekarar 1912, Nkrumah ya rubuta cewa an haife shi ne 21 ga Satumba 1909. Nyanibah, wacce ta fito daga Nsuaem da na dangin Agona ne, ya kasance dan kasuwa ne mai fatauci yayin da ta auri mahaifinsa. Bayan kwana takwas da haifuwarsa, mahaifinsa ya sanya masa suna Francis Nwia-Kofi bayan dangi amma daga baya iyayensa suka sanya masa suna Francis Kwame Ngolomah. Ya ci gaba ta hanyar karatun shekaru goma a cikin shekaru takwas. A kusan shekara ta 1925 ya kasance malamin dalibi a makarantar, kuma an yi masa baftisma cikin imanin Katolika. Yayin da yake makarantar, Reverend Alec Garden Fraser, shugaban Kwalejin Horar da Gwamnati (ba da daɗewa ba zai zama Makarantar Achimota) a babban birnin Gold Coast, Accra. Fraser ya shirya Nkrumah ya sami horo a matsayin malami a makarantarsa. A nan, Kolumbia mai ilimi mataimakin kyaun gaske Kwegyir Aggrey fallasa shi ga ideas na Marcus Garvey da W.E.B. Du Bois. Aggrey, Fraser, da sauran su a Achimota sun koyar da cewa ya kamata a samu hadin kai sosai tsakanin jinsi a cikin mulkin Gold Coast, amma Nkrumah, da yake amsa kira ga Garvey, ba da daɗewa ba ya yi imani da cewa sai lokacin da launin fatar ya yi mulkin kansa ne kawai za a sami jituwa tsakanin jinsi. Bayan samun takardar shaidar malamin daga Kwalejin Yariman Wales a Achimota a cikin 1930, An ba Nkrumah mukamin koyarwa a makarantar firamaren Roman Katolika da ke Elmina a shekarar 1931, kuma bayan shekara guda a wurin, aka yi shugaban makarantar a Axim. A cikin Axim, ya fara shiga harkokin siyasa kuma ya kafa kungiyar adabi ta Nzima. A cikin shekara ta 1933, an nada shi malami a makarantar hauza ta Katolika a Amissano. Kodayake rayuwar can ta kasance mai tsauri, ya so shi, kuma yayi la'akari da zama Jesuit. Nkrumah ya ji dan jarida kuma shugaban Najeriya na gaba Nnamdi Azikiwe yana magana yayin da yake dalibi a Achimota; mutanen biyu sun hadu kuma tasirin Azikiwe ya karawa Nkrumah sha'awar kishin kasa. Matashin malamin ya yanke shawarar ci gaba da karatunsa. Azikiwe ya halarci jami'ar Lincoln, wata kwaleji mai baƙar fata ta tarihi a Chester County, Pennsylvania, yamma da Philadelphia, kuma ya shawarci Nkrumah da ya shiga can. Nkrumah, wanda ya fadi jarabawar shiga Jami’ar London, ya sami kuɗin tafiyar da karatunsa daga danginsa. Ya yi tafiya ta hanyar Birtaniyya, inda ya koya, don fushinsa game da mamayar da Italia ta yi wa Habasha, ɗayan tsirarun ƙasashen Afirka masu cin gashin kansu. Ya isa Amurka, a watan Oktoba 1935.