Professor Francis Nkrumah (89), son of Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has died. Professor Nkrumah is said to have died on Sunday 30 June 2024.
He was the first born child of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. He had him with Madam Fanny Miller who came from Elmina in Region Mitt.
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is said to have met Miss Miller when he was teaching at the Catholic Church Secondary School in a town bordering Elmina called Amisano.
They nurtured a relationship and Miss Miller gave birth to Professor Nkrumah before Dr Kwame Nkrumah left Ghana to study at Lincoln University in the UK.
When Dr. Kwame Nkrumah returned, the child (Professor Francis Nkrumah) who had gone on to St. Augustine’s College performed well in the O Levels.
Meanwhile, Nkrumah had become head of state-owned enterprises in 1952 and was living with Francis in his Accra New Town Residence. He eventually received a Francis Nkrumah Cocobod scholarship to travel to Germany to study medicine.
The late Emeritus Professor Francis Nkrumah, who was the longest-serving director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), was lauded for his role in polio eradication initiatives in Africa and for the various roles he played as a co-founder of Pediatric. Association of Ghana and the West African College of Physicians.
In October 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Region honored Professor Francis Kwesi Nkrumah for his outstanding and diligent role in polio eradication initiatives in Africa.
Professor Nkrumah was awarded three awards for serving on the Africa Regional Certification Committee (ARCC), honored by the NHO Ghana office, and also as one-time Chairman of the Regional Task Force on Immunization (TFI).
The cause of death is not immediately known.
But Indian writer and editor Vijay Prashad announced his passing in a post on X on Sunday, June 30, 2024.
The editor of Inkani Books, publisher of the latest edition of “The Revolutionary Thoughts of Kwame Nkrumah”, quoted a preface to the edition written by Dr. Francis Nkrumah where he paid tribute to his father saying: “I currently feel that Africa will continue to miss (Kwame Nkrumah) unless we go back and return to what Nkrumah actually meant to Ghana and to Africa.”
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