who was kwame nkrumah?
Notable people with the surname include: 1  Kwame Nkrumah (1909â1972), the first Prime Minister and then first President of Ghana. 2  Fathia Nkrumah (1932â2007), wife of Kwame Nkrumah and First Lady of Ghana. 3  Samia Nkrumah (born 1960), Ghanaian journalist and politician. 4  Gamal Nkrumah (born 1959), Ghanaian journalist. Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong (born 1979), Ghanaian skier. See also. Nkrumah University, a university in Zambia. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a university in Kumasi, Ghana. Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute, a former educational institute in Winneba, Ghana. Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, a memorial in Accra, Ghana, dedicated to Kwame Nkrumah. FPSO Kwame Nkrumah, an oil storage and offloading vessel named after Kwame Nkrumah.