This photo was taken after the bomb attack on Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

Also in the photo is Mumuni Bawumia and Mrs Bawumia at the Northern Regional residency in Tamale.

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was born a year later on October 7, 1963.

Source: Myjoyonline

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Born on Monday, February 22, 1982, in Bosuso, Eastern Region of Ghana, Samuel’s journey from humble beginnings to becoming a formidable force in Ghana’s entrepreneurial and political landscape is nothing short of inspirational.

A Legacy of Excellence

Samuel Apea-Danquah, 42, hails from a family deeply rooted in education and leadership. His father, Fredrick Apea-Danquah, was a trailblazer in his own right as the first black Secretary of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the founder of Achimota Business College (ACHIBUSCO). This legacy of excellence undoubtedly shaped Samuel’s path, instilling in him the values of perseverance, innovation, and a relentless pursuit of knowledge.

Early Education and Academic Achievements

Samuel’s educational journey began at the prestigious Achimota Primary and JSS School, where his academic brilliance began to shine. In 1997, he gained admission to Tema Secondary School, a period during which his passion for science and technology blossomed. This passion led him to pursue a degree in Biological Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, after spending a foundational year at Central University College (CUC).

While at the University of Ghana, Samuel’s leadership qualities came to the forefront. In 2002, he founded and served as Editor-in-Chief of ‘The UGCampus Weekly,’ the university’s first official campus newspaper. This bold move demonstrated his commitment to fostering dialogue and information dissemination among the youth, a trait that would later define his entrepreneurial ventures.

The Godfather of Digitalization and AI in Ghana

Samuel Apea-Danquah is widely regarded as a godfather of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in Ghana. His groundbreaking work in these fields has not only positioned him as a pioneer but also as a leader in technological innovation in the country. Through his visionary initiatives, Samuel has consistently pushed the boundaries of what is possible, laying the foundation for Ghana’s digital future.

A Multifaceted Career

Throughout his career, Samuel has held a series of influential positions that reflect his diverse talents and unyielding commitment to progress:

1. Managing Director, ADS Media Agency (since 2003): Samuel’s leadership in media began early when he championed the use of technology to revolutionize media communication in Ghana.
2. CEO, MyGhanaOnline (since 2004): As the driving force behind Ghana’s leading Website Company, Samuel has played a pivotal role in shaping the country’s online presence and digital identity.
3. Managing Director, Ayekoo TV (since 2006): Under his guidance, Ayekoo TV has become a household name, delivering quality content that resonates with Ghanaians across the globe.
4. CEO and Lead Software Developer, KITNES (since 2004): Samuel’s expertise in software development has led to the creation of innovative solutions that address real-world challenges in Ghana.
5. Founder and Executive Director, SME Relief Foundation (since 2008): Committed to supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, Samuel’s foundation has been instrumental in empowering local businesses to thrive.
6. CEO and doctor, Kwadwo Boapim Herbal Clinic (since 2012): In the healthcare sector, Samuel has merged traditional and modern medicine to provide holistic treatment options to Ghanaians.
7. CEO, Mukaase (since 2016): With a focus on culinary excellence, Mukaase has become synonymous with quality and authenticity in the food industry.
8. CEO, Lemon Ice (since 2022): Samuel’s latest venture into the beverage industry reflects his continuous drive to innovate and meet consumer demands.
9. Founder and Facilitator, Soul Camp (since 2023): Dedicated to personal development and spiritual growth, Soul Camp offers individuals the tools they need to achieve inner peace and success.

A New Chapter: Presidential Aspirant

In 2020, Samuel took his first bold step into the political arena, contesting in the General Election as an independent candidate for the Parliamentary seat in the Ablekuma Central Constituency. His campaign, driven by a vision of inclusivity and innovation, resonated with many, marking the beginning of his political journey.

Now, Samuel Apea-Danquah is aspiring to become the President of Ghana in 2024, carrying with him the hopes and aspirations of a new generation. His candidacy represents a blend of youthful energy, seasoned experience, and an unwavering commitment to national development.

Family and Faith

Beyond his professional achievements, Samuel is a devout Christian and an active member of The Church of Pentecost, Ghana. He is married to Victoria Amegashie, a supportive partner who shares his vision for a better Ghana. Together, they have three children: Jasmine, David, and Samuel, who are a constant source of inspiration and motivation.

A Vision for Ghana’s Future

Samuel Apea-Danquah’s multifaceted career, coupled with his dedication to innovation and public service, positions him as a transformative leader for Ghana. His journey from a young boy in Bosuso to becoming the youngest presidential aspirant since Dr Kwame Nkrumah is a testament to what is possible when passion meets purpose.

As Samuel steps into this new chapter of his life, he carries with him the dreams of millions of Ghanaians who believe in a future where technology, education, and entrepreneurship are the cornerstones of national progress. His story is not just one of personal achievement but a beacon of hope for a brighter, more prosperous Ghana.

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Nana Kwame Appiah was a diehard UP supporter. He bought a Peugeot Caravan for the party. As far as I can remember, certainly from the age of four, he told us about the United Party and mentioned names such as Baffour Akoto, Kofi Busia, Chief Dombo, B.F. Kusi and many more. I did not hear anything positive about the “CPP”.

This was what he called Nkrumah’s CPP. The whole extended family followed our Patriarch and became members or sympathizers of the United Party and its traditions.

Later on in life, I began to appreciate the works of Kwame Nkrumah. I believe that Nkrumah should be seen not only in terms of the physical things he built, which were massive and no one else came near him, but also in terms of how he affected human lives.

Undoubtedly, he was the most important person in the fight for Ghana’s independence and also mentored several African leaders fighting for independence in their respective countries. He brought hope to the Black people everywhere on the globe.

Nkrumah championed the concept of African Personality when he declared that: “The African must assert his own personality and develop according to his own ways of life, his own customs, traditions and culture.”

I do not like everything Nkrumah did. But then, I do not even like everything I do myself. Such is the fallibility of man.

During Nkrumah’s reign, Ghanaians were respected throughout the world. Ghanaians who studied abroad returned home immediately after their studies to take up positions to help build Ghana with a sense of pride.

Sub-Saharan Africans abroad all portrayed themselves as Ghanaians. Everybody was proud to be associated with Ghana. Ghanaians were held in high esteem throughout the world.

Unlike today, when young Ghanaians are struggling to travel abroad to seek greener pastures because of harsh economic conditions, due to corruption and mismanagement. Nobody dared to lay his hand on a Ghanaian.

In our days, we have witnessed the slaying of Ghanaians in many parts of the world, including The Gambia and Nigeria.

Nkrumah did all he could to eliminate tribalism and promoted loyalty to the State of Ghana. This position is exemplified by a statement he made in his book, Africa Must Unite: “We were engaged in a kind of war, a war against poverty and disease, against ignorance, against tribalism and disunity.

We needed to secure the conditions which could allow us to pursue our policy of reconstruction and development.”

Through the Ghana Education Trust Nkrumah established secondary schools in all parts of Ghana. This enabled poor children, including me, to access secondary education.

Again, Nkrumah established the Ghana Medical School against all odds and made it possible for me and thousands of Ghanaian young women and men to be trained as doctors in Ghana. The vital role that doctors trained in Ghana have played in the development of Ghana is evident to all.

Kwame Nkrumah established the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) to develop and promote the peaceful utilization of nuclear, biotechnology, and other related technologies for socioeconomic development through research, training, and commercialization, and also to advise the government on policies related to the peaceful applications of these technologies.

Although GAEC has had a chequered history through coup d’état, misrule, political ignorance, and neglect by governments, through its institutions such as the Biotechnology & Agricultural Research Institute (BNARI), Ghana Space Science & Technology Institute (GSSTI), Graduate School of Nuclear & Allied Sciences (GNAS), National Nuclear Research Institute (NRI), Nuclear Power Institute (NPI), Radiation Protection Institute (RPI), Radiological & Medical Sciences Research Institute (RMSRIS), it has advanced to become one of the scientific and research institutions spearheading the development of this country.

Kwame Nkrumah established the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cape Coast University and the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Komfo Anokye Hospital.

Nkrumah did not have a sufficient number of technocrats – doctors, engineers, architects, scientists, etc. and the greatest of all tools, the computer, the internet, G.P.S., scanners, mobile phones, etc. were not available. But, think about what he did with the little that was available to him.

Factories and Industries: State Boatyards Corporation, State Brick and Tile Corporation, State Cannery Corporation (Nsawam), State Cocoa Products Corporation, State Distilleries Corporation, State Electronic Products Corporation Sanyo factory, (Tema), Glass Manufacturing Corporation, State Marble Works Corporation, State Paints Corporation, Sheet Metal Works Corporation, State Textile Manufacturing Corporation Akosombo, GIHOC Nzema Oil Mills Company Limited, GIHOC Vegetable Oil Mills Company Limited, Tema Food Complex Corporation (TFCC), Fibre Bag Manufacturing Corporation (Kumasi Jute Factory), Kwame Nkrumah Steel Works Corporation, Paper Conversion Corporation, State Footwear Corporation (Kumasi shoe factory), Sugar Products Corporation (Komenda & Asutuare), State Advertising Company, GIHOC Bottling Company Ltd, GIHOC Pharmaceuticals, GIHOC Paper Conversion Co. Ltd., GIHOC Printing & Paper Products, GIHOC Refrigeration and Household Products Ltd., Mosquito Coil Co Ltd, Abosso Glass Factory, Zuarungu Meat Factory, Wenchi Tomato Factory, Kade Match Factory, Akosombo Textiles Limited, Pwalugu Tomato Factory, Tarkwa Bonsa Tyre Factory, Bolgatanga Rice Mill Factory, Cocoa Silo, Tema were all built by Nkrumah.

Nkrumah built State Owned Enterprises and Other Projects including: Ghana Black Star Line with 15 ships, the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), National Investment Bank (NIB), the State Insurance Company (SIC), Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ghana Oil Company (GOIL), Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GHAPOHA),

Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), The National Management and Productivity Institute, Ghana Film Industries Accra, Ghana Airways Corporation, Afienya Gliding School, Ghana National Trading Corporation (GNTC), Cocoa Marketing Board (COCOBOD) and VALCO.

Housing and Hotel Projects: In Accra (Labone Estate, Kanda Estates, Osu Ringway Estates, Airport Residential Area); In Kumasi (Patasi Estate, Kwadaso Estate, Buokrom Estates, North and South Suntreso); Tema Township (Communities), Army Barracks – Tema, Army Barracks – Sunyani, Tamale Air Field, Army Officers Bungalows – Burma Camp, Air Force Quarters on the way to Burma Camp, YWCA, New Government Transport Terminal – Kumasi, New Government Transport Terminal– Accra, Black Star Square, Block of Flats for Volta River Authority, High Rise Office Blocks for the Income Tax,  Police Headquarters, Prison Warden Quarters, Police Quarters at Tesano, Airport and Mamprobi, New Judges Bungalows, Larterbiokorshie Flats and Peduase Lodge.

Hotels (Star, Meridian, Ambassador, Continental now Golden Tulip Accra, Atlantic, City Hotel Catering Rest Houses now Golden Tulip Kumasi).

Other projects: Ghana Museums, Ghana Film Corporation, Ghana News Agency, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Akosombo Dam, Accra (Kotoka) International Airport (paradoxically named after the person who overthrew him), Accra-Tema Motorway, Tema Harbour and Adomi Bridge.

Kwame Nkrumah wrote several books:

1. Negro History: European Government in Africa, The Lincolnian, 12 April 1938, p. 2 (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania) – see Special Collections and Archives, Lincoln University

2. Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957) ISBN 0-901787-60-4

3. Africa Must Unite (1963) ISBN 0-901787-13-2

4. African Personality (1963)

5. Neo-Colonialism: the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965) ISBN 0-901787-23-X

6. Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah (1967) ISBN 0-901787-54-X

7. African Socialism Revisited (1967)

8.Voice From Conakry (1967) ISBN 90-17-87027-3

9. Dark Days in Ghana (1968) ISBN 0-7178-0046-6

10. Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (1968) – first introduction of Pan-African pellet compass ISBN 0-7178-0226-4

11. Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (1970) ISBN 0-901787-11-6

12. Class Struggle in Africa (1970) ISBN 0-901787-12-4

13. The Struggle Continues (1973) ISBN 0-901787-41-8

14. Speak of Freedom (1973) ISBN 0-901787-14-0

15. Revolutionary Path (1973) ISBN 0-901787-22-1

None of the detractors of Nkrumah has written a single book.

There were at least 8 attempts on his life in the following locations: Dodowa Vilas, Railway Station Annex, UAC Motors, Accra Stadium, Kumasi Assembly Hall, Flag Staff House, and Kulungugu and around the main ministries in Accra.

Nkrumah is dead and gone. However, he has relatives and children, and the legacy of Nkrumah, a global icon, must be respected. Nkrumah’s greatness and his unparalleled contribution to Ghana and Africa were sealed when, in the year 2000, he was voted African Man of the Millennium by a BBC World Service listeners’ poll. Asɛm asa!

According to him, the Danquah-Busia tradition, from which the New Patriotic Party was formed, connived with agents outside the country to oust Nkrumah in 1966.

Mr Mahama said the uprising destroyed Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana and the entirety of the African continent.

The former President made these remarks in a Facebook post while commemorating the 57th anniversary of the 1966 coup on Friday.

He said: “57 years ago today, 24th February 1966, the Danquah-Busia political tradition conspired with external intelligence agencies to initiate Ghana’s first coup d’etat, which toppled the government of our first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

“This coup was achieved through a conscious and constant campaign of falsehood and calumny.”

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He added that “as a former President of Ghana who has also been at the receiving end of the Danquah-Busia tradition’s campaign of slander and sabotage, I can empathise completely with the quandary President Nkrumah found himself in.”

Mr Mahama went on to say that “In 1966, I was a young boy still in primary school. But I remember highlights of the dark days that followed the February 24, 1966 coup”.

The former President used the occasion to urge Ghanaians to remain loyal to the country’s democratic path.

He also seized the opportunity to entreat African leaders to remain true to the tenets of democratic governance.

“As today marks 57 years of that coup d’etat, I call on all fellow Ghanaians and our patriotic security agencies and armed forces to mark this day as one of reflection and to remain loyal to the 1992 Constitution as we begin the task of rescuing our dear nation from the dark pit the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has plunged us into.

“I further urge all Africans to give meaningful democracy a chance, the very reason for which I am presently here in Nigeria as Head of the West African Elders Forum on an election mediation mission, as the country votes on Saturday,” the statement concluded.

Reactions of Danquah-Busia activists

Meanwhile, members of the Danquah-Busia tradition have consistently refuted the claims that they played a central role in Ghana’s first coup d’état.

Repeatedly, they have stressed that such assertions are false and should not be associated with the late Dr J.B Danquah or the late Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia.

In one of such rebuttals a few years ago, the then Director of the Danquah-Busia Institute, Gabby Otchere-Darko, took offence when a former Communications Minister, Dr Omane Boamah made that allegation on Newsfile.

In anger, Mr Otchere-Darko walked off the stage, describing the comments as ‘stupid’.

Here’s a video recording of that altercation:

According to him, it was not because his dad, Dr Nkrumah was a womaniser but it was due to his busy schedule.

He explained a big age difference between them was another factor that accounted for the difficulty.

“There was also a big difference of age between them! Nkrumah’s official birth is 1909, while that of Fathia is 1935!,” he wrote.

He said this in a Facebook post as he reacts to Emma Florence Yaa Adinyira Amedahe’s interview on the relationship that existed between the couple.

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“Fathia was really in love with Nkrumah, she idolised the iconic and charismatic African leader! But she quickly learnt the hard way, when on their wedding night Osagyefo was caught up with work and returned home very late!,” he added.

The leadership of the CPP was livid at how the new textbooks are alleged to have described the first President of the Republic of Ghana as a dictator.

General Secretary, Nana Yaa Akyimpim Jantuah, disclosed on Onua FM that the committee has been tasked to meet with the publishers and conduct an investigation into how they developed the content.

The committee, she said, is also tasked to meet with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment to establish their input and subject their consent for the publication of the textbooks to investigation.

The former Public Affairs Director of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), inferred that the textbooks are conflict-ridden and only seek to distort Ghana’s history, bring division and destroy CPP.

She said it must be condemned.

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She also believes that the publishers are deliberately denigrating some personalities, parties and ethnic groups and that calls for a proper investigation to be done.

She, therefore, called on the government to set up a committee within the Ministry of Education to investigate and find the root cause or source of the misconception.

He was to receive the congratulations for having collected seven prizes in Latin, Greek, Religious Knowledge, History, English Language and Geography.

A proud Dr Nkrumah shook the hands of young Afrifa and congratulated him for his brilliance.

It is alleged that Dr Nkrumah, having been awed by the academic prowess of young Afrifa sponsored his education but little did he know that the young gentleman he sought to empower, would be the one to help in the overthrow of his six-year-old government.

As fate would have it, Afrifa would, eleven (11) years later, join forces with Colonel Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka and the then Inspector-General of Police, Mr. J.W.K. Harley to overthrow Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

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Lieutenant General A.A. Afrifa after the coup led by General Kotoka consolidated his positions in both the military and the National Liberation Council (NLC) which became the government after the coup.

He later became the head of State after the assassination of General Kotoka in April 1967 during an abortive coup, and the resignation of Lt. General Joseph Ankrah in April 1969 as the head of State.