September 24, 2025, As part of this year’s Kwame Nkrumah Festival (NkrumahFest 2025), Hon. Armah-Kofi Buah, Member of Parliament for Ellembelle, has renovated the Kwame Nkrumah Museum in Nkroful Dr. Nkrumah’s birthplace and original burial site bringing it up to a fitting standard. The celebration, themed “Journey to Nkroful,” marks the 116th birthday of Ghana’s first President and Prime Minister, honoring his enduring legacy and impact on the nation.
The renovation is part of a broader effort to honor Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and protect Nkroful’s heritage sites. The mausoleum once the home of Dr. Nkrumah and his parents still preserves evocative relics of daily life, including a hearth-side kitchen with firewood, traditional cooking pots, and a local lantern inside the original mud structure.
Mr. John Kwaw Nketiah, chairman of the NkrumahFest planning committee, praised Mr. Armah-Kofi Buah for modernizing the Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum and museum to a standard comparable with the national mausoleum in Accra. He noted that proper maintenance will help transform Nkroful into a compelling tourist destination, generating revenue to further develop the site into a lasting monument.
Mr. Kwaw Nketiah says he hopes the museum in Accra will be upgraded to national standards in the coming years both to honor Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and to help cement his legacy as a symbol of African freedom.
Genesis Tandoh, a director at the mausoleum, explained that the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum at Nkroful stands on the very ground where Nkrumah was born and lived with his parents, Egya Ngonlomah and Nana Nyaneba. As Nkrumah grew older and learned of his birthplace, he told his family that when he died, he wished to be buried on the same spot where his mother had given birth to him.
The museum also preserves a number of Nkrumah’s own books along with selected maxims concise, philosophical reflections that continue to resonate with contemporary social, economic, and political life around the world.
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