Happy Birthday, Kwame Nkrumah! On this day, September 21, 2026, we celebrate and remember the Father of African Independence and First President of Ghana, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah (1909 – 1972), whose vision for a truly united, truly sovereign and truly powerful Africa inspired generations of Africans to come. From the Decade of African Independence, to the Organization of African Unity (OAU), to the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), to the groundbreaking book, Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, Nkrumah laid an intellectual and ideological foundation for Africa in the modern age that no amount of Western t*rrorism could ever destroy. Nkrumah was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup on February 24, 1966, but his Pan-Africanist vision lived on. It is alive today in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), and it falls on Africa’s current generation to make this vision a reality for the rest of the continent.