Everybody has super heroes, here is one of Ghana's most patriotic hero... He is on the face of most of their currency notes (Cedis), he envisioned and made the intellectual blueprint of The new Ghana. Come see for yourself and get inspired!
Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum
Here is one of the "must see sight" of Ghana. .This museum holds the remains of the first president of Ghana Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The Museum was created in his honor after which his body was exhumed from his original burial ground at his home town-Nkroful.
The Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum and memorial park is located in downtown Accra, the capital of Ghana. It is dedicated to the prominent Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah. This is where his important personal belongings are kept...
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Kwame Nkrumah, (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was the leader of Ghana and it's predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana. An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963. He saw himself as an African Lenin.
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