The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah

In this episode, we bring to your view the rise and fall of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president. #HistoryVille
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
02:33 Early Life and Education
05:21 Independence Fighter
07:57 Ghana’s First President
11:25 Achievement as President
13:53 The Fall of Kwame Nkrumah
16:08 Kwame Nkrumah’s Legacy
21:05 Next Video

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  • @daudakamara728
    @daudakamara728 Жыл бұрын

    THERE IS NOTHING LIKE "THE RISE AND FALL OF NKWAMI NKURUMA" IT IS THE RISE AND LEGACY OF NKWAMI NKURUMA HE NEVER FELL ...HE IS AFRICA'S HERO OF ALL TIMES

  • @ladiangewmula9669

    @ladiangewmula9669

    10 ай бұрын

    He died in exist not in Ghana thanks

  • @NkrumahTure

    @NkrumahTure

    9 ай бұрын

    It's the Nkrumahists spread over throughout the planet and inside of Afrika that will finish the revolution.

  • @ekowabakah68

    @ekowabakah68

    4 ай бұрын

    Nkrumah never die

  • @user-gh8lg9hl7z

    @user-gh8lg9hl7z

    2 ай бұрын

    Kwami Nkruma never dies

  • @abdulwahabmendy292

    @abdulwahabmendy292

    2 ай бұрын

    The high priest of Pan-African

  • @DannysVloggg
    @DannysVloggg Жыл бұрын

    As a Ghanaian here I’ll give you your flowers on this video 💐💐💐

  • @user-ju6wl5mo3y
    @user-ju6wl5mo3y4 ай бұрын

    Dr Nkrumah even though u are dead thanks for making Ghana a mature state and county😂🎉❤😭

  • @user-ob2iy2lk1i
    @user-ob2iy2lk1i11 ай бұрын

    Dr kwame nkrumah was a great visionnary,a dreamer and philosopher,who no african leader can compare to or with,he is indeed a freedom fighter for the black africa race who achieve so much for the whole africa,nkrumah never dies,he still live in our heart.

  • @kwameaboagye121
    @kwameaboagye121 Жыл бұрын

    Baba Kwame Nkrumah is one of the greatest ever Pan African leaders in our history. Baba Kwame Nkrumah built so many institutes, industries, factories etc. Baba Nkrumah encourage Africans globally to reconnect with their roots and realities. Baba Nkrumah was so selfless and so bold that Africans should be independent and don't depend on anyone. I have been fortunate enough to read two of my favourite books he wrote, and that's Dark Days in Ghana and Africa must Unite. From Ghana Airways to Tema and from Aksomobo to Ghana Highway Patrol these are the self-achievement of Osagyefo Doctor Kwame Nkrumah 09-72.

  • @sewahakoto5825

    @sewahakoto5825

    8 ай бұрын

    Of course Nkrumah became paranoid when you have a vision of advancement for your people but know that the enemy is always lurking in the shadows and are looking to conspire against you with those who look like you, paranoia ensues and a once rational person starts suspecting that everyone is out to get them resulting in a dictatorial governance, the same happened to Adi Amin. Once the enemy has destroyed your sense of security they go for the kill to destroy you, that's what happened to Nkrumah. The enemy still walks amongst us pretending to be a friend of Africa.

  • @rayebutterfield1820
    @rayebutterfield1820 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. Thank you. It seems that he had good intentions for the continent but he forgot about the people of Ghana.

  • @AbebsPrempeh-xy4xm

    @AbebsPrempeh-xy4xm

    11 ай бұрын

    That is never true. He built many factories than any leader. Everything in ghana now still from what he achieved in the few years he stayed in power.

  • @rayebutterfield1820

    @rayebutterfield1820

    11 ай бұрын

    @@AbebsPrempeh-xy4xm Thank you for correcting me.

  • @AbebsPrempeh-xy4xm

    @AbebsPrempeh-xy4xm

    11 ай бұрын

    @@rayebutterfield1820 one love my bro

  • @adeamujale
    @adeamujale Жыл бұрын

    HistoryVille does it again!. 🌟🏆 🥇 💯✊🏿

  • @cesairedoleu8717
    @cesairedoleu8717 Жыл бұрын

    Oooooooh Historyville, your videos are very helpful and edifying. How delicious it is to listen to you. May God bless you and our ancestors strengthen you to keep it up. Hotep Hotep Hotep. Mâât spirit...

  • @John-zb8ly
    @John-zb8ly Жыл бұрын

    Very balanced history... Keep it up... Kwame Nkrumah is my number one African leader. However, the main flaw was his hasty attempt to industrialize Ghana under a very short period. But I still love him regardless of his flaws. He's had a selfless attitude towards the development of Africa... Compare his flaws to that of the current crop of African leaders, and you will call him a hero....

  • @HistoryVille

    @HistoryVille

    Жыл бұрын

    🙏

  • @SireAzi1

    @SireAzi1

    Жыл бұрын

    Nkrumah was indeed a hero, his Ghana industrialization efforts should have been seen as a plus. Why because those leaders who sit tight never accomplish anything. Since Nkrumah departs the scene, we have become professional bench warmers, sitting tight doing nothing while our people suffer. It's better for the contemporaries to endure so future generations may get the opportunities to grow and prosper.... That's what our colonizers and the USA understand while we Africans don't.

  • @coldhardtruth333

    @coldhardtruth333

    Жыл бұрын

    Within a short period? Are you kidding? Do you want progress or not?

  • @genesiajames3293
    @genesiajames329324 күн бұрын

    Great man

  • @user-ju6wl5mo3y
    @user-ju6wl5mo3y4 ай бұрын

    The dreamer of Ghana a life will lived rest in peace😭😭😭😱

  • @ahmadlabran8207
    @ahmadlabran8207 Жыл бұрын

    The commentary on this documentary is quite interesting . The Eurocentric narrative of Africas freedom fighters evolving into monstrous power hungry tyrant baffles me when somewhat educated documentarians fail to take heed of the investigative work needed for an intelligent Afrocentric version of the rulership of these freedom fighters . It’s beyond imperative that a research as to why almost all of Africas first prime ministers and presidents will turn into what most basic and Eurocentric minded African intellectuals, historians and documentarians such as the one I’m commenting on Will deem as totalitarians and draconian leaders … Post colonial African leaders encountered the most egregiously horrific propagandist tactics ever in the history of modern human civilization. And there are plethora of documents to prove that -as the current unclassified CIA documents have supports these claims . Nkrumah of Ghana Hailee Salasie of Ethiopia Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya Lumumba of the Congo Bela Tafawa of Nigeria , should I go on ? Togo , Egypt Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and many more African leaders who had taken the decision to stand up against the West and it’s hemispheres where all painted with the same wide brush of wickedness towards their inhabitants and or subjects - they were all power hungry and or socialist with communistic ideals that bought in about hunger and economic devastation.What these intellectuals and documentarians failed to dig into are the REASONS BEHIND THE ULTIMATE USE OF POWER BY THESE AFRICAN LEADERS . Nkrumah for instance had about 27 attempted murders and coups prior to his “ultimate grip of power” which was done to protect his government and in the grandest schemes of things the peoples best interest..The French , English and the Americans have all formally recognized their influences over the ousting of almost all the leaders of these newly independent African countries and you think it’s just due to the want of power is why the entire heads of states of these African countries ideals failed to bare an fruits ! If these are y’all’s take on heroes like Nkrumah then I am not quite sure you understand what Africans enslavement and colonization was all about - and y’all not even close to comprehending how white supremacy works !

  • @itstheru274

    @itstheru274

    Жыл бұрын

    "OMG!! 😵😲🤔🤔 i loved 😍 ❤️ your comment!!👏🏾👏🏾👍🏿💪🏿💪🏿✊🏿

  • @laisphinto6372

    @laisphinto6372

    Жыл бұрын

    dude was basically "not saved but under new Management" he wanted to be the african emperor

  • @coldhardtruth333

    @coldhardtruth333

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laisphinto6372 don’t be stupid .. it takes an Emperor to fight other empires .. how small are your minds?

  • @coldhardtruth333

    @coldhardtruth333

    Жыл бұрын

    It takes an Emperor to fight empires . How small minded to think power is not bloody ..

  • @NkrumahTure

    @NkrumahTure

    11 ай бұрын

    That's correct. There are forces that do not want us free.

  • @ejirowhisky7990
    @ejirowhisky7990 Жыл бұрын

    Great write piece 👍

  • @HistoryVille

    @HistoryVille

    Жыл бұрын

    🙏

  • @qadarsaeed
    @qadarsaeed Жыл бұрын

    Woow 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @adoghofasa9723
    @adoghofasa9723 Жыл бұрын

    Africa is a very rich continent filled with rich natural resources.. God bless Africa🌍

  • @archipiratta

    @archipiratta

    Жыл бұрын

    It would seem the problem then is its people 🤷🏽‍♀️

  • @Flower-ck2bs

    @Flower-ck2bs

    Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately the people all over the world enjoy good life due to abusing Africa. Africans sleep deeply for some reasons while thieves empty mother Africa home.

  • @ekowabakah68
    @ekowabakah684 ай бұрын

    Correction,The UGCC was not formed by JB Dankwa please, instead Paa Grant who was a millionaire by then.

  • @milkoansah-johnson8768

    @milkoansah-johnson8768

    26 күн бұрын

    Paa Grant funded UGCC. Paa Grant did not form it.

  • @ghsheabutterblacksoap2846
    @ghsheabutterblacksoap2846 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for highlighting his strength, weaknesses, flaws and all. Some Gh folks like to paint him as though he was a saint. How can future leaders learn from his mistakes if we don't acknowledge them?

  • @danielmark6779

    @danielmark6779

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly! I'm not into hero worship and so I appreciated this video extremely well. It's one of the few very balanced accounts of Kwame N'krumah's life and legacy that I have viewed. The man was great and of noble intentions but he had lots of fatal flows, personally and politically. I very admire him but not like a lot of Ghanaians do when they ignore or feign ignorance of his deep flaws.

  • @guyanacreations4073

    @guyanacreations4073

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@danielmark6779 👎🏾👎🏾

  • @guyanacreations4073

    @guyanacreations4073

    Жыл бұрын

    👎🏾👎🏾

  • @Prince-lo3nz

    @Prince-lo3nz

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@guyanacreations4073 you must be 5 years old

  • @gabrielyankson9393

    @gabrielyankson9393

    8 ай бұрын

    Yes, we the youth know of these things.. but the reason why we paint him as a saint is because his legacies still live on till date. He's the type of President we have never had. Bro, it's time you acknowledge him. At least he never stole from us.

  • @sewahakoto5825
    @sewahakoto58258 ай бұрын

    Despite all his weaknesses he still one of the best leaders Africa has had, he loved Africa and Africans.

  • @eliben9902
    @eliben9902 Жыл бұрын

    Great leader

  • @anihemmanuel8872
    @anihemmanuel8872 Жыл бұрын

    This is obviously a very nice channel. It will be good if u tell the history of religious figures like Muhammad, Jesus, Paul, Buddha, etc and entrepreneurs like Ford, Bill Gate, Mark Zuckerberg... These might even give more viewers.

  • @bquart4297

    @bquart4297

    Жыл бұрын

    I didn't know Bill Gates was a religious leader. Thanks for enlightening us😂😂

  • @ibrahimturay1586
    @ibrahimturay1586 Жыл бұрын

    Very intresting. If Africa had had many other African leaders like Nkruma. I think the continent would not have been in such a mess today. Man proposes God disposes.

  • @danielspencer6174
    @danielspencer6174 Жыл бұрын

    They need make movie about kwame also other African leaders English French and Portuguese and local languages of Africa?

  • @ajibadefrank6377

    @ajibadefrank6377

    3 ай бұрын

    The man was 100 years ahead of the people in his way of thinking. If Africa had become another USA, we would by now have become a force to record with, socially and economically. It is high time Africa emphasizes teaching history of African leaders, particularly, people like Dr Kwame Nkrumah. It is high time we stop emphasizing on histories of our colonial masters.

  • @user-mp1ev1kj6x
    @user-mp1ev1kj6x19 күн бұрын

    "FORWARD EVER, BACKWARD NEVER". OSAGYEFO DOCTOR KWAME NKRUMAH 09-72

  • @Flower-ck2bs
    @Flower-ck2bs Жыл бұрын

    Let his dream be a reality! British still hold Ghana in their hands…

  • @thetruthmustbetold663
    @thetruthmustbetold6632 ай бұрын

    Nkrumah never dies

  • @Mr.Prince_Tunmise
    @Mr.Prince_Tunmise Жыл бұрын

    I can't but feel like some info is missing...

  • @markwarreneddy

    @markwarreneddy

    6 ай бұрын

    Ya he was a Marxist.

  • @abasiyuredominic6190
    @abasiyuredominic6190 Жыл бұрын

    Everything Nkrumah did was for a reason including the one party state. He was not a saint but he loved his country and continent more than the leaders we have today

  • @shauncameron8390

    @shauncameron8390

    6 ай бұрын

    So much so that he left it bankrupt?

  • @Martez-tf3yx

    @Martez-tf3yx

    3 ай бұрын

    Name me one saint

  • @user-if2hl4im3t
    @user-if2hl4im3t7 ай бұрын

    Aaameen

  • @danielmensah8096
    @danielmensah809610 ай бұрын

    The same people who gave him 22,000 out of 23,000 votes chased him out and jubilate like never before. My people never joke 🤣🤣

  • @user-gw2id4df3c
    @user-gw2id4df3cАй бұрын

    Kwame Nkrumah did so many good things for Ghana and Africa but he was a dictator and authoritarian in Ghana. In 1964 changed Ghana into one party state and made himself a life president.

  • @AhmadRidwanWanderer
    @AhmadRidwanWandererАй бұрын

    Salam dari indonesis

  • @adeamujale
    @adeamujale Жыл бұрын

    Nkrumah was definitely onto something, and eventhough it seemed extreme at the time, the concept has actualy been tested and proven in modern day politics. To me, what the master teacher was insisting upon could also be reassembled to mean such as the 'uniting power' that the institution is afforded. For instance, let's form a real and proper Union, be it a commerce based union, strategic union, agricultural, metallurgy based, mining based union, whatever, simply let 'we'[sic] form what can be seen to be a real and proper union; that's all. Let for there to be real and proper institutions that are run for the sole purpose of catering to the wants and needs of our people worldwide. This isnt too much for anyone to ask, this is something one should take away from the progressive and productive ideology that Nkrumah had going on for him.

  • @charlesbarry971
    @charlesbarry971 Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, he died without seeing his dream of a United Africa The greatest African leader

  • @user-ju6wl5mo3y
    @user-ju6wl5mo3y4 ай бұрын

    He suggested with a sickness cancer

  • @Weirdo3609
    @Weirdo360910 ай бұрын

    To unite Africans we should do it by force

  • @archipiratta
    @archipiratta Жыл бұрын

    11:51 How'd he marry someone who he couldn't even talk to?! What tha....

  • @Flower-ck2bs

    @Flower-ck2bs

    Жыл бұрын

    It was common even in Eurpe and other continents. It is about politics.

  • @itstheru274

    @itstheru274

    Жыл бұрын

    🤦🏿‍♀️🤦🏿🤦🏾‍♂️

  • @itstheru274

    @itstheru274

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Flower-ck2bs "So it Was a business marriage 🙁😳🥺 i often wonder why 🤔 out of all the beautiful 😍 Afrikan women all over why do they marry out there Culture 🤔 😔🥺🙁 "Hotep Afrikan family 🤲🏿🙏🏿💜

  • @ebenezerasamoahfokuoh2814

    @ebenezerasamoahfokuoh2814

    Жыл бұрын

    It was political. Those days, the middle east of Africa didn't see themselves as Africans because they are not black so on his dream to unity africa, he thought it necessary to marry from there

  • @SireAzi1

    @SireAzi1

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@ebenezerasamoahfokuoh2814 You are making things up.... The Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser of Egypt and Nkrumah of Ghana were friends....before Nkrumah got married to his wife, he had had a relationship with another Egyptian woman who was at the time working in Ghana. This woman left Ghana and returned to Egypt while pregnant with Nkrumah's baby. So the plan was to go find that Egyptian woman so he would marry her but someone else was found because the other woman got married upon her return to Egypt.

  • @FanzyFayaya
    @FanzyFayaya22 күн бұрын

    Despite all he had done for Ghana and Africa, Nkrumah was a despot. He abused power and muzzled the opposition.

  • @GodwinJombo-hj1uf
    @GodwinJombo-hj1uf6 ай бұрын

    The historical perspective of African leaders should be putting records straight and not to twist the facts

  • @kingraspedro4722
    @kingraspedro4722 Жыл бұрын

    They say Arab and African cannot live together you see why he married that empress colonial power will not like that 😁

  • @hashimamissah6571
    @hashimamissah6571 Жыл бұрын

    The last version of this video is not the actual fact. The PDA was against his enemies as it is currently existing in the US and UK to deter any political enemies, such laws are being used.

  • @omenihuwisdompaul714
    @omenihuwisdompaul714 Жыл бұрын

    This is Bais story

  • @stephenokyere5216
    @stephenokyere5216 Жыл бұрын

    Desperate situation needs Desperate action: if you rule over fickle minded people they will call you dictactor. It is only those you don't know the challenges he face as a head with stiffneckeder military who have no clue as to how to rule a nation like Ghana 🇬🇭 with ignorance of the oppressors ideology will doubt his contributions to the black race and black people.

  • @Gloria-su5ss
    @Gloria-su5ss2 ай бұрын

    No

  • @dannyjesutofunmi
    @dannyjesutofunmi Жыл бұрын

    I prefer the voice of that man.

  • @itstheru274

    @itstheru274

    Жыл бұрын

    "Me Too! a Afrikan Black Man at that!! i really don't like hearing 😕 europeans white people tell "Afrikan Jamaican Story's i don't wanna hear his-story i wanna hear "Our-Story!!😳🤔

  • @user-ju6wl5mo3y
    @user-ju6wl5mo3y4 ай бұрын

    His life was all about politics

  • @josephradge4856
    @josephradge4856 Жыл бұрын

    Your comment that at the point of his dispose there was shortage of is not true and then again the planners of that coup was not solely the police and Military regimes but foreign imperialist. You have to speak the truth.

  • @udrive2861
    @udrive2861 Жыл бұрын

    This video is just an over-simplistic descriptions or opinions on Kwame Nkrumah's reign. Not taking into accounts many of the difficult yet life-threatening political oppositions of the time. It is without much regard to the brutal effects and nature of the geo politics of the time, imperialism, colonialism, racism, the cold war, betrayals, and the estwhile agenda and tendencies of the neo colonialist of the time. In short, it's just too easy now to rant and call Nkrumah names until one is faced with similar decision making difficulties.

  • @calvinodhiambo6751
    @calvinodhiambo67517 ай бұрын

    And the role of devious west against progressive leaders in Africa in his “fall”?

  • @sampsonjoseph2340
    @sampsonjoseph2340Ай бұрын

    Dr Nkrumah rules in Ghana just 6 years, because he was not a pulpit leader, he done 10 time better done all this Ghanians leaders ever comes to rules Ghana

  • @williamaidoo6996
    @williamaidoo699610 ай бұрын

    No, no, that is misinformation,Ghana suffered economic setbacks those days because the West intentionally lowered prices of Ghanaian redources and did everything to destroy Dr.Nkrumah's Govt because of his anticolonial and African unity objectives Nkrumah pursued

  • @barimantim511
    @barimantim511 Жыл бұрын

    He turned a dictator when he realized his life was in danger The numerous attempts on his life He only wanted to keep his enemies at bay But these UGCC guys were resourceful and very hungry for power And that's how they've been till now Some of their elements are still in government Ostentatious lifestyle That's all these guys know In terms of nation building they have failed woefully

  • @guyanacreations4073

    @guyanacreations4073

    Жыл бұрын

    Shuuuut Up!!

  • @TshepisoMosenene-ev2xi
    @TshepisoMosenene-ev2xi10 ай бұрын

    Kwames did not fall he still lives on in is

  • @kwameaboagye121

    @kwameaboagye121

    10 ай бұрын

    Kwame never dies!

  • @joshuasachi6297
    @joshuasachi6297 Жыл бұрын

    He was visionary but selfish. He did not treat those who discovered him, the j b dankwah and the rest

  • @kwameaboagye121

    @kwameaboagye121

    10 ай бұрын

    No, he wasn't selfish. In what way was he selfish? Either you like him or not.

  • @brightamanful9409

    @brightamanful9409

    5 ай бұрын

    Which selfish, those people you are talking about were rather selfish. Nkrumah was patriotic and they did everything possible to bring him down. The good things Nkrumah did even with the few resources and fierce internal and foreign opposition, Ghana still benefits from those even today.

  • @Visceral.
    @Visceral. Жыл бұрын

    Nkrumah was ousted by the help of 🇺🇸 CIA.

  • @shauncameron8390

    @shauncameron8390

    6 ай бұрын

    No. His delusions of grandeur did the job.

  • @user-mp1ev1kj6x

    @user-mp1ev1kj6x

    11 күн бұрын

    ​@@shauncameron8390Yes it was the CIA pigs were responsible for his ousting.

  • @kinguche9208
    @kinguche9208 Жыл бұрын

    He truly had a good plan for africa but Cold War was on and USA was looking at him as he mingled with Russia then had to stop him. Some Ghana would say his Jesus of Ghana forgetting that the man was a tyrant. He was the leader all c#orrupt leaders in africa look upto mostly Nigeria

  • @laisphinto6372

    @laisphinto6372

    Жыл бұрын

    dint forget he split together and divided the ewe people

  • @kinguche9208

    @kinguche9208

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laisphinto6372 sure

  • @coldhardtruth333

    @coldhardtruth333

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laisphinto6372 why did that happen ? Didn’t the ewe people want no part of Ghana?

  • @guyanacreations4073

    @guyanacreations4073

    Жыл бұрын

    Where do you live!!?? Clown??

  • @Max_nuhu12

    @Max_nuhu12

    Жыл бұрын

    Myopic nincompoops here

  • @lawrenceoyedele8782
    @lawrenceoyedele8782 Жыл бұрын

    THIS IS PROPAGANDA VIDEO ARE WE NOT FEELING THE HEAT FOR EVERYTHING HE SAID

  • @rickrahman391
    @rickrahman39111 ай бұрын

    The rise and fall sounds stupid ... the rise of Kwame suffices

  • @SanjayKumar-fc2qg
    @SanjayKumar-fc2qg Жыл бұрын

    Another sad case of an African leader who strangled himself with his own halo. Shame.

  • @jfd12gubs45x
    @jfd12gubs45x23 күн бұрын

    Was Kwame Nkrumah a dictator?

  • @user-mp1ev1kj6x

    @user-mp1ev1kj6x

    11 күн бұрын

    It's just nothing put propaganda.

  • @user-mp1ev1kj6x

    @user-mp1ev1kj6x

    11 күн бұрын

    It's nothing but false propaganda.

  • @user-ju6wl5mo3y
    @user-ju6wl5mo3y4 ай бұрын

    The dreamer of Ghana a life will lived rest in peace😭😭😭😱

  • @user-ju6wl5mo3y
    @user-ju6wl5mo3y4 ай бұрын

    The dreamer of Ghana a life will lived rest in peace 😭😭😭😭😱