On July 4, 2023, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo officially reopened Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park. The goal of this $3.5 million (GHS 30 million) project is to honour the life and work of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president.
Both Dr. Nkrumah and his wife, Fathia Nkrumah, are buried in the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, making it an important place of history in Ghana.
At the ceremony, President Akufo-Addo stated, “It is gratifying to note that it has not only been renovated but has been completely modernising to befit the status of the final resting place of the man who led us to independence in 1957 and became Ghana’s first president, the celebrated Kwame Nkrumah.”
He went on to say, “It is in line to make the park one of the top tourist destinations in West Africa. As the outstanding pan-Africanist of this generation, the burial site of Dr. Nkrumah must be appropriate to a status in exceptional contribution to the liberation of Africa from colonialism and imperialism.”
In 1957, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah proclaims Ghana’s independence in the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, which is built on the site of the British colonial Polo Grounds in Accra. For the purpose of honouring Ghana’s first President and protecting the country’s history, the late Jerry John Rawlings got it built in 1990. In 1992, the park was finally opened to the public.
There are over 98,000 people who visit the park every year, and they come from all over the world. It is a memorial and museum dedicated to Ghana’s first president, where guests can pay their respects and learn about his life and achievements. The park has grown rapidly to become one of Ghana’s most popular tourist attractions.
