Old image of young Kwame Nkrumah captured in school football team photo emerges

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  • Timbuktu pride 1 year ago

    Stop the fucking lairs , the top far left comer is someone wearing glasses and Nkrumah never ever used to that. Shame on you on this bogus news.

  • POWER TO THE PEOPLE 1 year ago

    NDC IS TRYING HARD TO HIDE BEHIND NKRUMAH BUT NKRUMAH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH NDC. FIND WORDS TO EXPLAIN YOUR 24 HOURS ECONOMY AND LEAVE NKRUMAH ALONE, HE WOULD HAVE HATED NDC IF HE WAS ALIVE.

  • Simpa Panyin Nunoo M. 1 year ago

    PNDC overthrew Limann, whose party (PNP) succeeded CPP.

  • DotCom 1 year ago

    I think you should keep quiet because you have no idea about the history of the country during that time.

  • BOY KOFI 1 year ago

    Oh yes,according to Dr Ako Adjei they played football together when they were at the Lincoln University.Tnx.

  • Dr K. Ansah 1 year ago

    Had it no been for Nkrumah`s vision and efforts,
    Ghana would have been amongst the least developed countries in Sub Sahara Africa.
    All politicians in Ghana who came after Nkrumah , have proved to be more interested in self ...
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  • Afutuo 1 year ago

    Generation waiting to see the jubilation on the faithful day of February 1966 ,when Kwame Nkrumah was over throw the. Whole nation from Accra Capital to Paga citizens were party ,in the history of Ghana no civilian government ...
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  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    Where in Africa have citizens not swarmed the streets to march and make silly noise whenever there's a coup, even though they have no clue as to why a coup was staged? That's just an African disease like the mortgaging of one ...
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  • Jidoshaki 1 year ago

    I yes I now agree with the Ndc propaganda that even kwame Nkrumah build the school he is standing in front in this picture before he became president.

  • OZYMANDIAS 1 year ago

    Photo was taken when he was a student at Prince of Wales College, now known as Achimota School in early 1930s.

  • Augustina Quayson 1 year ago

    Please the picture is also found at page 26 of Kwame Nkrumah The years abroad 1935-1947 by Marika Sherwood..This was the soccer team of Lincoln University 1938- 1939 lt included other Ghanaians, Kobina Mbura, A ...
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  • Godwin Boampong 1 year ago

    Where is he in that pic

  • Political Squabbles 1 year ago

    Nkrumah did well, we hear. Now let's seek the way forward and stop spending more time longing for him. People will reminisce about him, but let's ferret the way forward.

  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    Wait till you see Akufo-Addo in that long lost photo that pictures him with his team mates when played for the renowned Cape Coast Dwarfs football team before going off to college. Akufo-Addo was a defender, and he took no pr ...
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  • Sam Fante warrior. 1 year ago

    Wicked blood vipers of generation to generation, they crucified the Christ son of God and again they they crucified Kwame Nkrumah the saviour of Ghana and Africa.

  • Mese Hmm 1 year ago

    In the image shown here, Nkrumah could not have been one of the players. There were 13 of them in jerseys, so Nkrumah could not have been even a substitute. So what is this story supposed to tell about Nkrumah's sportsmanship ...
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  • Mese Hmm 1 year ago

    On taking a second look at the picture, I thought the player sitting second left in the front row resembles Nkrumah better than the other one in glasses!