Kwame Nkrumah Memorial

Kwame Nkrumah Memorial, originally uploaded by eileenbortey.

This monument is in Accra, Ghana. It honors the nation's first president, Kwame Nkrumah. He led the African nation through the initial struggles of independence from the British (they called the colony The Gold Coast). He was educated in the US and a strong voice for Pan-Africanism.