50 quite a while back today, Kwame Nkrumah passed on
The Ghanaian Times paper report of Friday, April 28, 1972, had the strong title texts "Kwame Nkrumah is dead, State Burial for him," and "The man, Nkrumah," declaring the demise of Ghana's first president.
Taking a gander at a long time since that declaration was made, GhanaWeb brings back a photograph of that paper page that definite the demise of the nation's pioneer and pioneer.
On Friday, April 28, 1972, Ghanaians in the then youthful Ghana, awakened to the insight about the passing of the country's political dissident and first president, Kwame Nkrumah.
Nkrumah had kicked the bucket the day preceding in Bucharest, Romania, from where he has headed out to seek therapy for his prostate disease conclusion.
He was 62.
As GhanaWeb shares this, it is trust that it reminds each Ghanaian that the battles, penances, and the understanding of the man Kwame Nkrumah has given them a free country as they have it today.