KWAME NKRUMAH
It is certain that few statesmen have attempted to achieve so much as KWAME NKRUMAH, a leading activist and theoretician of the African Renaissance and Pan-Africanism. His work lives on and continues to inspire Africans, people of African descent and progressive movements worldwide.
For the first time in a Biography of Nkrumah, information is provided about all the books written by him. The circumstances in which they were written are explained, their contents examined, appraisal made of their significance and continuing impact on political developments in Africa and the diaspora. This is an authentic moving account of the life and work of “The Greatest African” (the words inscribed on his coffin in Guinea), by an author well qualified to write about him.
JUNE MILNE was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1920. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and obtained a first class degree in Modern History at the University of London. She met Kwame Nkrumah in 1957 and worked closely with him, first as his research assistant and then his publisher (Panaf Books). She was with him in Romania when he died in 1972.
In his will Nkrumah appointed her his Literary Executrix. June Milne retired from publishing in 1987 to spend more time in her work as Nkrumah’s literary executrix. She continues to collate, organise and to preserve Nkrumah’s archives of published and unpublished papers, essential material for future generations whose task it will be to implement Nkrumah’s future of a truly liberated and United African continent.
ALSO BY JUNE MILNE . . . Kwame Nkrumah (Panaf Great Lives Series, 1974) Forward Ever (Panaf, 1977); Sékou Touré (Panaf Great Lives Series, 1978)
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