KWAME NKRUMAH MAUSOLEUM AND MEMORIAL PARK

 

walk way at the park

Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, also know as the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park KNMP is the last resting place of the first President of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. It is dedicated to him for his outstanding campaign to liberate Ghana by then Gold Coast from colonial rule in 6th March,1957.

The entrance to the site is from the 28th February High Street just along the coast from Independence Square. It is located directly opposite the old Parliament House now known as the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice CHRAJ.

I visited the Kwame Nkrumah museum and memorial park one fine Saturday. The museum was quite small, but had some interesting articles from his life, even a bookcase he used while studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

 Kwame Nkrumah was the first president of Ghana, and its liberation hero. He studied at Lincoln University and the University of Pennsylvania as a youth. He was exiled after serving several years as president, when a military coup forced him to leave. He stayed in Guinea another West African country, where he was named co-president. link http//en.wikipedia,org/wiki/Ghana for more information

About twenty years after his death, Nkrumah’s remains were transferred to the memorial park in Accra.

 The site of the garden has particular significance. Not only was it once a polo field that only European expatriates could play on, it was also where Nkrumah declared Ghana’s independence in the 1950′s.

The museum and some of the statues had the word “Osagyefo” before Nkrumah’s name. It means “redeemer” in the most prominent traditional language in Ghana, Twi.

fountains at the park

 It is a nice place for travelers to know more about Kwame Nkrumah ,i like every thing on that site.

Kwame Nkrumah, (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was the leader of Ghana and its 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 Pime minister of Ghana. An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism.

                                                 video link youtube.Kwame Nkrumah the redeemer

 To get a real feel and understanding of this amazing country, a visit to Kwame Nkrumah Park and Museum  is a must. I gained a better understanding of Ghana, its journey to independence and its hope for freedom and African unification through peace. Kwame Nkrumah, though his actions and influence, has left a lasting mark on our world.