of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.  Early life and education Kwame Nkrumah was born in 1909 to Madam Nyaniba [2] [3] in Nkroful , Gold Coast . [4] [5] Nkrumah trained to be a teacher at Achimota School in Accra from 1927 to 1930 [1] . For the following 5 years