Kwame Nkrumah was born in 1909 in Nkroful, a village in what was then a British colony in West Africa known as the Gold Coast. Educated at a Roman Catholic elementary school, he was recognised as a very able student and trained as a teacher in Accra, the capital of the Gold Coast. There he was introduced to the ideas of African nationalist thinkers, including W. E. B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey.
After teaching for several years, Nkrumah decided to take his own education further and studied at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, USA. He completed a BA degree in economics and sociology there in 1939, later gaining further degrees in theology, philosophy and education. He had financial help from relatives and later a scholarship, but also worked as a porter, a dishwasher and a waiter in hotels and restaurants to fund his studies.
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