Seif MansySocialMrs. Nadean Khedr17 February 2014Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah was the first leader of the Gold Coast. He was the man who persuaded and spoke to others for independence; was the first president; he was both a hero and an enemy. This man's life is a story worth telling. Kwame Nkrumah was born on 21 September 1909 in Nkroful, a small coastal village in southern Ghana. In that small village, in southern Ghana. In that small village K. Nkrumah lived his early years and received teachings; in that small town he learned to speak Nzema (the language of the Akan tribe) and English.K. Nkrumah studied in his village, Nkroful, until 1924. In 1925 he moved to Accra where he studied at Achimota School to become a teacher, graduating in 1935. He subsequently worked as a teacher; worked in several schools in Axim. During these 5 years he saved money to continue his studies in the United States. In 1935 he obtained a visa and left for the United States. In the United States, he enrolled at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. Nkrumah officially founded the CPP to help liberate Ghana from colonialist political oppression on June 12, 1949. The members were former members of the Committee on Youth Organization (CYO), which was previously part of the UGCC. Nkrumah stated: "I am happy to tell you that the CYO, due to the current political tension, has decided to transform itself into a full-fledged political party with the aim of promoting the struggle for full self-government." In Nkrumah's eyes, the only way the citizens of Ghana would be able to take control of their own government would be through political unity. He expressed publicly that, in his opinion, a united Ghana was a necessity for… the paper centre… despite the domino effect. At the same time, Ghana's economy had collapsed and foreign exchange and government reserves had disappeared. The unemployment rate had increased dramatically and food prices had skyrocketed starting in the year 1957 and up to 66% in 1965.14 Thereafter there were huge food shortages affecting every area and individual in the country. So on 24 February 1966, Colonel Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, a member of the National Liberation Council (NLC), which was the opposition force to Nkrumah, took over government. The acquisition was conducted under the code name Operation Cold Chop. The United States and Ghanaian neocolonialists supported this operation which later caused the dissolution of parliament and the outlawing of Nkrumah's political party, and also removed Nkrumah as president of the First Republic of Ghana..