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 | | A highly educated man, Nkrumah believed from an early age that the African continent had its own economic legacy divorced from the vision of the west which, during the early twentieth century, tended to view the continent as a reservoir of mineral wealth as opposed to a distinct entity. |
 | | Kwame Nkrumah was born in Nkroful in the country known at the time as The Gold Coast and subsequently renamed Ghana. |
 | | Initially he was educated in Gold Coast Schools but subsequently went to the US where he obtained a doctorate from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. |
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