The Nana Project

On February 24, 1966, Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in a coup. Nana Aba Naaman was in her second year at Mfantsiman Senior High School on the day the coup happened. In this clip she shares her memories of that day. (🎥The Nana Project)

Daniel Pryce shares his memories of Ghanaian president Dr. Hilla Limann who passed away on January 23rd, 1998. Limann served as president from 1979-1981.

Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang is a lecturer at the University of Ghana's Department of English and Academic Director of the School for International Training Study Abroad Program in Ghana. He received his PhD in English Literature from West Virginia University after completing previous studies at the University of Ghana. His scholarship, which revolves around African Digital Literature, has appeared in several academic journals.

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Last week Ghanaian philosopher Kwasi Wiredu passed away at age 90. He was known for his theory of conceptual decolonization, which aims to purge "African philosophical thinking of all uncritical assimilation of Western ways of thinking." He served as a faculty member at the University of Ghana and University of South Florida, in addition to holding several professorships at universities around the world. Some of his best known works include Philosophy and an African Culture, Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion, The Akan Concept of Mind and How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought. (📷Daily Nous)

On January 9, 1914 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc was founded at Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, DC. While Kwame Nkrumah was studying in the US, he became a member of Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma located at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He joined in 1942. Can you spot Nkrumah in this photo?

November 11th is Remembrance Day, a day to remember the service and sacrifice of British and Commonwealth Armed Forces.  Pictured are the burial sites of Lance Corporal Kwasi Asiedu and Sergeant S.C. Owusu Asante, two Ghanaian soldiers who are buried at the Maynamati War Cemetery, a cemetery for Commonwealth soldiers in Comilla, Bangladesh. Both soldiers were members of the West African Army Service Corps, Royal West African Frontier Force and served during World War II. You may be wondering how these soldiers ended up in Bangladesh. Unfortunately, we do not have that information. However, the cemetery website states that soldiers buried there were from various military hospitals in the area or were transferred from different cemeteries in the region and re-buried there. (📷 Kirstie Kwarteng)

Senegalese stamp honoring James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey aka "Aggrey of Africa". Aggrey was born on October 18, 1875 in Chokor. He was an educator and served as Achimota School’s first Vice-Principal. At age 23, he traveled to the US to study at Livingston College, a historical Black college. While in the US he met and married Rose Douglas, an African American woman. The couple had four children including Orison Rudolph Aggrey who became a U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, and Romania. Aggrey died in Harlem, New York in 1927 after a short illness. Aggrey Memorial Senior High School is named in his honor.

Happy Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day! On 21 September, 1909 Kwame Nkrumah was born in Nkroful. He was Ghana’s first Prime Minister and President. An ardent Pan-African, he was also a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union). How will you commemorate Nkrumah’s legacy today? (📷Cambridge University Library)

In June 1939, Accra experienced an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5. 17 people died and over 130 people were injured. The intensity of the shock was the greatest in Jamestown. Pictured is the Criminal Investigation Department (C.I.D.) building in Accra after the earthquake. This building and other nearby buildings had to be evacuated. (📷 Cambridge Library)