Kwame Nkruma and his role in the independence of GhanaKwame Nkruma was a very complicated person. In his life he did both good and bad. He loved his country and loved helping others. He worked hard to help his country and its people gain independence. Nkruma has been through good times and bad, but he has remained strong. He did his best to help his country in both the short and long term. He made some mistakes, but he got away with it. Although he was ultimately not appreciated, people later realized how much he had truly done for his country. Ghana was initially known as the Gold Coast. It was the world's largest supplier of cocoa and was also known for its diamond oil and gold. Nkruma had a fairly normal childhood. He was born on the Gold Coast, now Ghana, to two parents. His father was a goldsmith and his mother was a retail trader. He was baptized a Roman Catholic and attended a nearby Roman Catholic elementary school for nine years. After graduating from Achimota College in 1930, he became a teacher in Catholic middle schools in Elmina, Axim and a seminary. This is how his life went in Ghana. After a while, when he realized that he was inclined towards politics, he decided to move to the United States. He attended Lincoln College in Pennsylvania in 1935. After graduating in 1939, he earned master's degrees from Lincoln College and the University of Pennsylvania. He studied the literature of nationalism, primarily from Marcus Gravey, and studied socialism, particularly from Carl Marx and Vladimir I. Lenin. He soon defined himself as a “non-denominational Christian and a Marxist socialist.” He soon became president of the African Student Organization of the United States and Canada. It finally left the... center of the card... going down. During a trip to Beijing he was overthrown in a coup. Today, Ghana is different from before. Ghana is now a successful country. It is a republic with a unitary presidential constitution with a multi-party parliamentary system. Ghana favors international and regional politics. It is also an active member of the African Union. Ghana has many industrial minerals and other vast arrays of natural resources. Ghana is also a major supplier of oil. Ghana is a multi-ethnic country. Ghana is a very traditional country. They have strong beliefs and stick to their traditions. While Ghana has seen good and bad times, Kwame Nkruma played a role in both. Without his, Ghana would not be what it is today, for better or for worse. Kwame Nkruma may not have done the best for Ghana, but he made a difference, he won freedom. And you can never put a price on freedom.