
Professor Francis Nkrumah (89), son of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has died. Professor Nkrumah reportedly died on Sunday, June 30 2024.
He was the eldest little one of Dr Kwame Nkrumah. He took her with Mrs. Fanny Miller who got here from Elmina within the Central Area.
Dr Kwame Nkrumah is claimed to have met Miss Miller when he was instructing at a Catholic church secondary faculty in a city adjoining to Elmina known as Amisano.
They developed a relationship and Miss Miller grew to become pregnant with Professor Nkrumah earlier than Dr Kwame Nkrumah left Ghana to review at Lincoln College in England.
By the point Dr Kwame Nkrumah returned, the boy (Professor Francis Nkrumah) had gone to St. Augustine’s Faculty has carried out nicely at O Degree.
In the meantime, Nkrumah had turn out to be head of presidency enterprise in 1952 and lived with Francis at his Accra New City Residence. He finally secured a Cocobod scholarship for Francis Nkrumah to journey to Germany to review medication.
The late Professor Emeritus Francis Nkrumah, who was the longest-serving director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Analysis (NMIMR), was praised for his position within the poliomyelitis eradication initiative in Africa and for the assorted roles he performed as a founding member of the Pediatric Affiliation of Ghana and the West African Faculty of Physicians.
The World Well being Group (WHO) Africa Area, in October 2016, awarded Professor Francis Kwesi Nkrumah for his excellent and diligent position within the Poliomyelitis eradication initiative in Africa.
Professor Nkrumah was awarded three awards for serving on the African Regional Certification Committee (ARCC), was awarded by the NHO Ghana workplace, and was additionally the chair of the Regional Process Power on Immunization (TFI).
The reason for loss of life isn’t but recognized for sure.
Nevertheless, Indian author and editor Vijay Prashad introduced his loss of life in a put up on X on Sunday, June 30, 2024.
🧵Dr. Francis Nkrumah (1935-2024) just lately died. He was Kwame Nkrumah’s eldest son. He spent his life as a pediatrician, a lot beloved by his sufferers. Dr Nkrumah remained in Ghana after the coup in opposition to his father, and continued to work as a physician and scientist. pic.twitter.com/fKM0h6mM52
— Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) June 30, 2024
The editor of Inkani Books, writer of the most recent version of “Kwame Nkrumah’s Revolutionary Thought,” quotes the foreword to the version written by Dr. Francis Nkrumah the place he praised his father, stating, “I really feel in the present day Africa continues to do the identical factor. miss (Kwame Nkrumah) except we return and revisit what Nkrumah actually meant to Ghana and Africa.”
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