Professor Francis Nkrumah (89), the son of Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, is dead. Professor Nkrumah is reported to have died on Sunday, June 30, 2024.
He was Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s first born child. He dated Ms. Fanny Miller, who came from Elmina in the central region.
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is said to have met Miss Miller when he was teaching at the Catholic Church middle school in a town called Amisano adjacent to Elmina.
They maintained a relationship and Miss Miller received Professor Nkrumah before Dr. Kwame Nkrumah left Ghana to study at Lincoln University in the United Kingdom.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah returned, the child (Professor Francis Nkrumah) who had managed to get into St. Augustine’s College had performed remarkably well in the O Levels.
Meanwhile, Nkrumah had become head of government affairs in 1952 and was living with Francis in his Accra New Town Residence. Finally, Francis Nkrumah received a Cocobod scholarship to travel to Germany and study medicine there.
The late Professor Emeritus Francis Nkrumah, the longest-serving director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), was praised for his role in initiatives to eradicate poliomyelitis in Africa and for the various roles he played as a founding member of the Pediatric Association of Ghana and the West African College of Physicians.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Region honored Professor Francis Kwesi Nkrumah in October 2016 for his outstanding and diligent role in initiatives to eradicate poliomyelitis in Africa.
Professor Nkrumah received three awards for his service on the Africa Regional Certification Committee (ARCC), recognized by the NHO Office in Ghana, and as a one-time Chair of the Regional Task Force on Immunization (TFI).
The cause of death is initially unknown.
But Indian author and editor Vijay Prashad announced his death in a post on X on Sunday, June 30, 2024.
The editor of Inkani Books, publisher of the latest edition of “The Revolutionary Thoughts of Kwame Nkrumah”, quoted a foreword written by Dr. Francis Nkrumah, in which he praised his father, saying: “I currently feel that Africa continues to exist.” Miss (Kwame Nkrumah), unless we go back and consider what Nkrumah actually did meant for Ghana and Africa.”
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