Samia Nkrumah

Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah (born 23 June 1960) is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Convention People's Party. In the 2008 parliamentary election, she won the Jomoro constituency seat at her first attempt. She is also a freelance journalist. She is the daughter of the first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah and his Egyptian wife Fathia Rizk. She was born at Aburi in the Eastern Region of Ghana in 1960. She was forced to leave Ghana with h... more

Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah (born 23 June 1960) is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Convention People's Party. In the 2008 parliamentary election, she won the Jomoro constituency seat at her first attempt. She is also a freelance journalist. She is the daughter of the first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah and his Egyptian wife Fathia Rizk. She was born at Aburi in the Eastern Region of Ghana in 1960. She was forced to leave Ghana with her mother and brothers on the day of the 1966 coup.They were resettled in Egypt by the Egyptian government. She returned with her family in 1975 at the invitation of General Acheampong's National Redemption Council government and attended the Achimota School. She however left the country again when her mother decided to return to Egypt in the early 1980s. She proceeded to London, later completing her studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in the United Kingdom, where she obtained the degree of... less