Nkrumah’s Daughter Visits Makerere, Amazed by the Statue of her Late Father

The daughter of Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah, Ms Samia Yaba Nkrumah visited Makerere University and checked out the hall of residence that was named after her Pan-Africanist father.

She arrived in Kampala on Tuesday morning for a high-level dialogue themed on positioning Africa for the 21st Century.

While in Makerere, she met the vice chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe and the Nkrumah hall warden Mr. John Kamya among others.

She is said to have been amazed by the statue of her late father that is situated in front of the said hall of residence with some reports suggesting that she “laughed” at the shape of its head.

Ms Nkrumah jetted in at the invitation of the Kampala-based Africa Strategic Leadership Centre, and will be part of panelists to discuss the pivotal role of leadership towards the next Africa’s development agenda.

Ms Nkrumah is one of the founders of Africa must Unite, an organisation which aims to promote Kwame Nkrumah’s vision and political culture.

She was the first woman to head a major political party in Ghana, the Convention People’s Party, founded by her late father and championed Ghana’s attainment of independence in 1957.

Her visitation of the university was a courtesy call and just a form of honouring the late Kwame Nkrumah.

The hall was previously named New Hall before it formally assumed the name of the first Pan-Africanist.