CPP celebrates 105th birthday of Nkrumah

The Convention People's Party (CPP) celebrates the 105th birthday of their founder and Ghana's first president Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah who was born September 21, 1909.

Themed "Come and Stand Up with CPP", the celebration which started September 14 is highlighted by a series of activities including a durbar and launch of the reprint of The Big Lie, a book written by Nkrumah in 1969.


The pinnacle of activities is on September 22 which is Founder's Day, a national holiday instituted to commemorate the birthday of Osagyefo and celebrate the founding fathers of the country.


The CPP will host the general public and supporters at the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra on the day to climax the celebrations.


Kwame Nkrumah was an influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity now African Union and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.

He has many laurels to his name including numerous honorary doctorates. In 2000, he was voted Africa's Man of the Millennium by listeners of BBC World Service, described as a "Hero of Independence," and an "International symbol of freedom as the leader of the first black African country to shake off the chains of colonial rule."


In September 2009, President John Atta Mills declared 21 September (the 100th anniversary of Kwame Nkrumah's birth) to be Founder's Day, a statutory holiday in Ghana to celebrate the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah.


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