Drum Magazine social history photographs, Ghana edition 109

Ghana, 1976. Africa's Farewell To Nkrumah – Final homage to a great African is paid by Mr SL Koroma, vice President of Sierra Leone (far left) by Nkrumah's body in Guinea. Even in death, Kwame Nkrumah could stir passions. The body of the self-styled "Osagyefo" had been brought from the Rumanian clinic where he had died of cancer to Conakry, in Guinea, where his friend Sekou Touré had offered him sanctuary when he was deposed as President in the Ghana coup of 1966. At the last minute, President Touré refused to allow a Ghanaian mission to take back the body to Nkrumah's village birthplace in Western Ghana unless they promised that Nkrumah and his party bosses be reinstated to their former positions.