Nkrumah (Kwame -) 1909-1972. President from 1960 till 1966

He wrote 'Towards Colonial Freedom' in 1947 in opposition to British rule, and later organized a non-cooperation movement in Ghana. After independence (1957) he became first President of the Ghana republic (1960). He declared a one-party state and was deposed in 1966 by the army while on a visit to China.