Portrait of Kwame Nkrumah
Title: Kwame Nkrumah
Series: “If All Black Men Were Pacifist”
Size 24 x 36 inches
Medium: Screen print on paper using red, green, yellow, and black ink; portrait rendered in black archival Micron pen.
From Chains to Unity
Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), the first president of independent Ghana, believed that liberation must be collective. Trained in the U.S. and inspired by the global Black diaspora, Nkrumah led Ghana's break from colonial rule in 1957.
His dream of a unified Africa echoes the visions of Black Americans during Reconstruction, where emancipation demanded not only freedom from slavery, but freedom to build. His message remains urgent today: Black liberation is incomplete without economic control, cultural pride, and political sovereignty.
“Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.”
—Kwame Nkruma,