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Nkru⋅mah

  [uhn-kroo-muh, uhng-kroo-]
–noun
Kwa⋅me  [kwah-mee] , 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
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Nkru·mah   (ən-krōō'mə, əng-)   
Ghanaian politician. Instrumental in achieving Ghana's independence from Great Britain (1957), he became president (1960) but was deposed in a coup d'état (1966).
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Nkrumah, Kwame [(uhn-krooh-muh)]

The president of Ghana in the 1960s and a leader of the Pan-African movement, which opposed white domination of Africa and promoted a feeling of shared identity among black Africans. He was deposed by a military coup in Ghana in 1966.

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