Nkrumah Mausoleum Is a Japanese Idea – Part 1
JAN 23, 2021
He prides himself with being a very good historian, so I expected Capt. (Retired) Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey to know that it was a visiting Japanese Prime Minister who first asked to be shown the tomb of Ghana’s first postcolonial leader, President Kwame Nkrumah, assuming the same to be located somewhere in the Greater-Accra Metropolis, only to be disappointingly informed that he needed to travel by road some 200 miles west towards Ghana’s border with the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), to the village of Nkroful, before he could be shown Nkrumah’s tomb. If memory serves me accurately, that Japanese Premier would eventually make it to Nkroful and to the tomb of Ghana’s globally celebrated African Show Boy, to lay a wreath on the tomb or in the tomb of the immortalized Ghanaian leader.