Security Service file on Francis Nwia Kwam NKRUMAH: Ghanian. [electronic resource], 1942-1953.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Great Britain. MI5.

Contributor:

National Archives (Great Britain)

Series:

Personal (PF Series) Files: communists and suspected communists, including Russian and communist sympathisers

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972.

Nkrumah, Kwame.

Intelligence service--Great Britain.

Intelligence service.

Espionage, British--Sources.

Espionage, British.

Communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (5 PDF files)

Other Title:

Francis Nwia Kwam NKRUMAH: Ghanian

British MI5 files on Francis Nwia Kwam NKRUMAH

Place of Publication:

1942-1953.

Richmond, Surrey, U.K. : National Archives.

Summary:

" Francis Nwia Kwam NKRUMAH, aliases Nia Kosi NKRUMAH, Francis Nwie KWAME NKRUMAH, Nkrumah KWIA KOSI, Kwame NKRUMAH: Ghanaian. NKRUMAH, the first Prime Minister of independent Ghana, was a student, lecturer, journalist and politician in the United States and Britain between 1939 and 1947. During this period and after his return to Ghana (then the Gold Coast) he had strong Communist sympathies and contacts. On returning to Gold Coast/Ghana in 1947 he became active in politics and, in 1949, formed the country's principal Independence party, the Convention People's Party. In 1952 he became Prime Minister of the Gold Coast. These papers provide an account of NKRUMAH's political activity and associates in Britain and Gold Coast/Ghana during the period preceding independence"--National Archives UK catalogue

Notes:

Records taken from Security Service files.

Serial 14a: summary of NKRUMAH's career as at 16 July 1947. Serial 37a: summary of career. Serial 61b: summary and personality note and photograph of NKRUMAH. Serial 69c: press release re NKRUMAH's aim for a Union of West African Soviet Socialist Republics

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Cited in:

National Archives (Great Britain) Catalogue KV 2/1847, KV 2/1848, KV 2/1849, KV 2/1850, KV 2/1851

OCLC:

1030335962

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