The time Kwame Nkrumah made it to a historic TIME magazine cover in 1953

In a moment that signalled his rising global influence, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was featured on the front cover of TIME Magazine on February 9, 1953, four years before Ghana’s independence.

Dr Kwame Nkrumah, at 47 years old, was the leader of the Convention People's Party, and was seeking to bring the country into a new state, one that did not involve British colonial rule.

An image of TIME Magazine's cover from that year in 1953 emerged online with Dr Kwame Nkrumah captured by Boris Chaliapin, who was an artist for the magazine and credited for illustrating more than 400 covers, including former US President Richard Nixon, among other notable personalities.

FLASHBACK: The time in 1953 when Kwame Nkrumah graced TIME Magazine's cover

Behind the image of Dr Nkrumah was the illustration of the African map, while an inscription, 'GOLD COAST'S KWAME NKRUMAH - In the Dark Continent, dawns early light' captured beneath.

On February 24, 1966, Kwame Nkrumah was deposed in a coup by the National Liberation Council in an operation dubbed "Operation Cold Chop" while he was on a visit to Hanoi in Vietnam.

The NLC coup was led by Colonel Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka and Lt Gen Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa.

See the image below:



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