Kwame Nkrumah: A president who was buried three times

 

Kwame Nkrumah. [File Standard]

Like everyone else, I read about him in history books with what now emerges to be a missing detail that I was to learn as I stood at his place of burial.

The detail was of him being buried three times. Yes, three times— well, that sounds far-fetched, right?

While in Ghana on a recent tour representing the Kenya Editors Guild at the Africa Media Convention, I learned that when Kwame Nkrumah was...