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Assassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah

Assassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah

Date
2 Aug 1962
Updated
30 Sep 2019
Assassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah

An attempt on the life of President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana fails. Nkrumah escaped an assassination attempt when a hand grenade was thrown into a crowd greeting him at Kulungugu, Northern Region in Ghana. His rule in Ghana was becoming progressively oppressive. Four years previously he had passed the Preventive Detention Act, which he had used to imprison over 1000 of his political and social opponents. Click here to read our past This week In History's entry on another assassination attempt on Nkrumah.

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Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Assassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011960

South African History Online (2011) 'Assassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011960 (Accessed: 30 July 2026).

South African History Online, Assassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011960, (accessed 30 July 2026).

"Assassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011960. Accessed 30 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Assassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011960.

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