who was the first president of ghana?
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Kwame Nkrumah, standing on stool, being sworn in by Arku Korsah, as the first president of the Republic of Ghana in Accra. 1960. Photographic prints--1960.
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She is the first female presidential aspirant of the Ghana Football Association. She is a Ghanaian-British national that was born in Sierra-Leone and lives in both the United Kingdom and Ghana.
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['Charles Ampofo – $1.46 billion. Image: twitter.com, @NsromaMedia.', 'Dr. Kwame Addo Kafur – $1.2 billion. ... ', 'John Mahama – $900 million. ... ', 'Michael Ibrahim – 860 million. ... ', 'The Irani Family – $800 million. ... ', 'Kwabena Duffuor – $680 million. ... ', 'Dr. ... ', 'The Hitti Family – $540 million. ... ']
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Catholic Church may have already had a black pope. Ghanaian cardinal Peter Turkson is frequently mentioned amid all the speculation about who might succeed Pope Benedict XVI. If picked, some would see him as the first African and the first black pontiff in the nearly 2,000-year history of the papacy.
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Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana. The Constitution Day is a newly designated Public Holiday, which will be observed starting on 7 January 2019.
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Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, KBE PC (December 1912 – 15 January 1966) was a Nigerian politician who was the first Prime Minister of Nigeria.
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The reason is that in 1957 (the year Ghana attained independence) during the first-ever Miss Ghana Beauty contest, the Volta Regional representative, Monica Amekoafia was contestant number 9 in that year's beauty pageant. ... It was her number that brought about the name number 9 for the people of the Volta Region.
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Sékou Touré, in full Ahmed Sékou Touré, (born January 9, 1922, Faranah, French Guinea [now Guinea]—died March 26, 1984, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.), first president of the Republic of Guinea (1958–84) and a leading African politician.
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Kofi Annan, a former secretary-general of the United Nations and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has died aged 80. The Ghanaian diplomat passed away at a hospital in the Swiss capital, Bern, on Saturday after a "short illness", his foundation said in a statement.
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines was Haiti's first president, serving from 1804 to 1806. A former slave who declared himself emperor, he ordered a massacre and implemented reforms that led to his overthrow.
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Ghana, country of western Africa, situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea.
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Burkina Faso's Pure President by Bruno Jaffré. Thomas Sankara Lives!
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['Paul Biya. Cameroon. Prime Minister, then President. ... ', 'Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Equatorial Guinea. President. ... ', 'Ali Khamenei. Iran. President, then. ... ', 'Denis Sassou Nguesso. Republic of the Congo. President. ... ', 'Hun Sen. Cambodia. Prime Minister. ... ', 'Yoweri Museveni. Uganda. President. ... ', 'Idriss Déby. Chad. President. ... ', 'Nursultan Nazarbayev. Kazakhstan.']
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She was a successful farmer and mother. She was an intellectual, a politician, human right activist, queen and a leader. Yaa Asantewaa became famous for leading the Ashanti rebellion against British colonialism to defend the Golden Stool.
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Ahmadu Ibrahim Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto (12 June 1910 – 15 January 1966), knighted as Sir Ahmadu Bello, was a conservative Nigerian statesman who masterminded Northern Nigeria through the independence of Nigeria in 1960 and served as its first and only premier from 1954 until his assassination in 1966, in which ...
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Kevin Okyere was born in 1980 to an affluent family in Ghana's gold-rich Ashanti region. His father had built a substantial fortune in construction, steel manufacturing and large-scale cocoa farming, before he was enstooled as a traditional chief. Okyere displayed entrepreneurial promise at a very young age.
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George Weah. George Manneh Oppong Weah (/ˈwiːə/; born 1 October 1966) is a Liberian politician and former professional footballer currently serving as the 25th President of Liberia, in office since 2018.