This is the moment Nkrumah received information that he had been overthrown by a military coup on February 24th, 1966.
8 Facts About Kwame Nkrumah's Overthrow:
1. Kwame Nkrumah was airborne over China in an official visit to Beijing when he was overthrown in a coup.
2. The CIA is alleged to have sponsored the coup because of Kwame Nkrumah's relationship with China and what is now known as Russia.
3. Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai was waiting to receive Nkrumah at the Beijing Airport and had already been informed of the coup before Nkrumah knew of his own overthrow. This left the Chinese Prime Minister in a diplomatic confused state trying to figure out how to receive an overthrown Head of State.
4. Upon landing, Zhou Enlai pretended he hadn't received the news and gave Nkrumah a warm presidential welcome. Prime Minister Zhou the. Took Nkrumah to a private room where he privately informed Nkrumah of the coup. Nkrumah expressed disbelief but eventually accepted reality after reading the message from a foreign news source.
5. Following the coup's confirmation, the 90-member Ghanaian delegation in Beijing distanced themselves from Nkrumah immediately, leaving Kwame Nkrumah stranded and alone.
6. The Ghanaian embassy in Beijing shifted its allegiance to the new military government in Ghana.
7. Nkrumah left China frustrated, confused and ashamed for Guinea, where he was granted political asylum by President Sekou Toure and made co-President of Guinea.
8. Nkrumah passed away in 1972 in Romania on a medical trip, having never returned to Ghana after his ousting.
Takeaways:
1. In Africa, we only honor our heroes in death.
2. Kwame Nkrumah was shamed in his lifetime.
3. Coups in Africa always have a foreign support. Don't let the same people who overthrew Kwame Nkrumah in a coup manipulate you to go to war in Niger Republic.
4. Anytime African leaders get close to China or Russia, some foreign elements would program an outbreak of war in Africa. In 1966, they wanted to cause a continent wide war by planning to attack the Chinese and Russian embassy's in Accra on the day Nkrumah was removed. This would have caused the invasion of Ghana.
I shared this to educate advisers of ECOWAS leaders - don't let the west sponsor war with your brothers. Do Not Ever Go To War In Niger Republic - It's a Trap. You Will Never Recover From The Aftermath in Another 50 Years. Terrorism will spread and Millions of Lives will be lost just because of Democracy - an ideology you do not own. By Charles Awuzie
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