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Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum

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 th
March, .
Dr. Nkrumah was overthrown by military

government in , after ruling for years.
He then went to exile in the Republic of
Guinea. He fell ill and died in Bucharest,
Romania when seeking medical

treatment.T

Nkrumah s body was buried in Guinea since

he was the Co-president there. With Nkrumah
dead, the Arican Students Union in London
feared that, the total emancipation of Africa
has come to a dead end.

The students sent a memo to Guinea asking
that the body of the late president should be
brought to Ghana only if the then military
government would denounce coup d etat and

re-erect the statue of Kwame Nkrumah that
was toppled down during the coup. This
marked the beginning of the Nkrumah

Mausoleum Monument.

After years of his death, Dr. Nkrumah s
image was restored in st July, on the

same grounds where he led Ghana to
liberation from colonialism on th march
.