Kwame Nkrumah Article

What was Kwame Nkrumah’s educational background?

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Raised a Roman Catholic, Kwame Nkrumah attended Catholic day schools and graduated from Achimota College in 1930. A few years later, he moved to the United States to pursue master’s degrees at Lincoln University and the University of Pennsylvania. While in the U.S., Nkrumah’s exposure to Marxist, socialist, and Black nationalist thought influenced his politics.