Today, April 27, 2025, marks 53 years since Ghana's first President, Dr , died in Bucharest, Romania, in 1972, while in exile after a short illness.
Reports indicated that the deceased president died from prostate cancer with no family member by his side after months of failing health while receiving treatment abroad.
The former president, who died at the age of 62, was overthrown from power during a coup in 1966 and moved to Conakry, Guinea, to settle there for some time after the Ghana Police Service offered a reward of $120,000 to anyone who could bring him back to the country dead or alive.
Nkrumah had suspicions of being poisoned, particularly because his cook had died a mysterious death in Conakry, Guinea, during his exile in the country right after his overthrow in Ghana.
