Kwame Nkrumah was born in Nkroful in the southwestern part of the

British colony. Nkrumah was a great student in the local missionary schools.

While he was a teenager, he became an untrained elementary teacher in a nearby

town of Half Assini. In 1926 Nkrumah went to Achimota College in Accra, he

earned his teaching degree and went on to teach at several Catholic elementary

schools. IN 1935 he moved to the United States to attend Lincoln University in

Pennsylvania. When he graduated with a B. A. degrees in economics and

sociology. In 1942 he received a M.A. degrees in education and philosophy. In

1942 and 1943 Kwame was persuaded by the writings of German political

philosopher Karl Marx, German economist Fredrich Engels, and Russian leader

Vladimir Lenin. Kwame promoted a Pan-Africanism, it is a movement for

cooperation between all people of African origin and for the political union of an

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