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MLK in Africa

MLK and Nkrumah during a visit to Ghana, Africa in 1957. Both men stand side by side with Nkrumah in a suit and MLK in a white shirt and black tie and pants. Both are smiling while Nkrumah waves.

Martin Luther King, Jr over the course of his lifetime was able to visit Africa. In 1957, on the invite of Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, he visited the country as it celebrated it independence from Great Britain. On returning, MLK delivered an address entitled, “Birth of a New Nation” in which he discusses in […]