ABSTRACT
Kwame Nkrumah was born to the senior wife of a goldsmith of the Nzima language-group who lives in the south-western corner of Ghana: probably, he himself thought, on a Saturday in mid-September of the year 1909. He sucked in knowledge of the challenges of life, and dreamed dreams about the power a man can have to meet and overcome them. Achimota had opened windows on the world for Nkrumah. In many colonies, there were African wars of resistance as late as Nkrumah's time at Achimota, and sometimes even later. Things were better, twenty-five years later, when Nkrumah entered Achimota. Nkrumah had no wish to be a doctor, but the words meant something to every African who cherished a belief in his right to equal treatment with other men; and one of the keys to Nkrumah's later thought and action can be found.
