Kwame Nkrumah: The Story of Post-Colonial Africa

Long before the likes of Thomas Sankara, Robert Mugabe and Nelson Mandela burst onto the international scene as the faces of anti-imperialism in Africa, one man stood head and shoulders above his peers as the leading political voice and the very embodiment of Africa’s struggle against colonialism.

Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, took the world by storm as he led his nation to become the first black African nation to gain independence from the European powers. But just as Nkrumah’s revolutionary leadership in Ghana, would trigger a wave of independence movements all across sub-saharan Africa, his gradual decline and sudden overthrow would also become a familiar story across virtually all of Africa’s newly independent states.

This is the story of how Dr Kwame Nkrumah went from being Ghana’s messiah and a faultless hero to a political pariah, whose ultimate demise would lead to wild celebrations in the streets by the very same people that had once loved and adored him.

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[maame]

As a Ghanaian, I can confirm that this video is very well researched and largely accurate. I applaud the team behind this channel

[lanahanbrian]

No excuses or white-washing European imperialism and at the same time no romanticising or excuse making for African leaders and governments. The impartial aspect of this channel makes it incredible. This is the kind of content I'd show my students if I was a history teacher or professor.

[Mcsetty]

Bro I’ve become enamored by history but Didn’t know much about African history until I started watching your channel very insightful keep up the good work

[computersdon]

As a Ghanaian, I'd like to say that this documentary was very well done. This has taught me a lot more about our hero in much more details than we studied in school. Despite his flaws, we in Ghana still hold him in high esteem because he was a man of vision and also achieved a lot in terms of infrastructure development in his short time. We believe that Nkrumah genuinely meant well for not just Ghanaians, but for black Africa as a whole. But the pressure of the expectations of a newborn Nation, the manipulations of foreign powers, and the obsession with his own crazy ambitions led him down the wrong path. He made mistakes, and those mistakes forced him to make even direr mistakes. In the end, Nkrumah was a one-man army fighting for a vision and a future that only he could see. He tried to force everyone to get on board and it ended in disaster. Unfortunately, NKRUMAH WAS WAY AHEAD OF HIS TIME.

[eatwithafia]

I always love how thoughtful and meticulous this channel is when it comes to providing information about African history. I have watched all your videos about African leaders and I must say your neutral approach in shedding light on these figures is so important. It is easy for us, who are more and more removed from the periods immediately before and after independence, to forget about the nuances of these political heros and only think about the good they brought rather than remember that they too were human. I have been unlearning a lot of things I knew about Nkrumah and rather now being both appreciative of his fight for independence but also seeing how some of his pitfalls made my home country what it was especially in the 70s and 80s

[nitin-wblt]

As an Indian this channel has been such an education. Thank you!

[lindaasafo-adjei]

Kwame Nkrumah was a great, true and well caring leader and Not a dictator. Nkrumah was an honest man except the ministers around him were the problem like any other government in the Western world. Nkrumah was great and wonderful wise man in Ghana and Africa.

[tieck]

Greetings to Ghana from the US! 🇬🇭🇺🇲

Let us hope that within our lifetimes better angels prevail in both our countries - then the true wealth of your peoples will no doubt transform our world.

[mashroorhasanbhuiyan]

It's been not even 24 hours since I found this channel and I've bingewatched 20+ of your videos. Love from Bangladesh, Africa and our stories are so common in so many aspects. Appreciate your great work <3.

[pgmh-vd]

I come from Ghana and we were never taught the history of our independence in such detail. I’m shocked to hear all this about Nkrumah. He was presented as a man who did no wrong and was simply killed by “haters”.

[yaniswelwolo]

I really appreciate the fact that your videos are not just among the most factually correct and informative videos about African history but that they're also narrated by a voice i could listen to for hours.
Thank you🙏🏾

[t.c.]

I'm English and I love Ghana. This is a very informative video on it's history, an exemplary nation for the other emerging nations. Hope to visit one day 🇬🇭

[oneafricaseries]

I am starting to see a pattern between former and new African leaders. Kagame has a similar story, so does Museveni, Gaddafi, ect.. They all start out as revolutionists, and freedom fighters. The longer they stay in power, the corruption starts to ensue slowly.. Nevertheless, Kwame is one of the greatest Pan-Africanist to have lived in my book.

[eyeSinreverse]

We as Africans need to know the truth! Thank you for this brilliant piece of history.

[AfricanBiographics]

I have pressed the like button already because I know it's going to be a good one :)

[fatimasumakamara]

Thank you very much for this research work it was very well researched. As a Sierra Leonean and African, from this video have come to realized that we Africans are somehow responsible for our own development and under development simply because of our own political greed and thirst for power . Thanks

[enochantwi]

I'm super excited for this! Please also do Thomas Sankara next. Was doing some reading on him yesterday as it was 33 years ago he was assassinated and cannot believe Blaise Compaoré went on to rule Burkina Faso for 27 bloody years!

[Anna-gmtt]

thank you for this video - an african american longing for the motherland ❤️

[wisdomsarbah]

Who is watching this documentary right now & still hv love for the irreplaceable DR kouamé 🍁

[grantgerson]

Kwame Nkrumah, is Africa's Greatest Vision for self Governance. A true real brother. Thank you Ghana for birthing this Great Brother.