Francis Nwia Kwame Nkrumah's exile years

When there was a military coup in Ghana, nkrumah was arriving in Beijing from Yangon and transferring to Hanoi. When he stayed at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, China's ambassador to Ghana said to him, "Madam President, I have unfortunate news that there has been a coup in Ghana." This is beyond nkrumah's expectation. He said in surprise, "Impossible?" Instead, he said, "but it is also possible that such things have already happened, and they are all of the nature of revolutionary struggle." He suspended his plan to visit Vietnam and stayed in Beijing to watch the domestic changes. At this critical moment, Premier Zhou Enlai had two separate talks with nkrumah, urging him to treat calmly, sum up lessons, accumulate strength and prepare for a long-term struggle.

A few days later, the accompanying officials left him one after another, and the Ghanaian ambassador to China also announced that he would not be recognized as the President of Ghana (1966+00). Later, at the invitation of Guinean President Ahmed Sekou Toure, nkrumah left Beijing on February 28th 1966 and went to Guinea via the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Algeria. He arrived in Conakry on March 2 and was warmly welcomed. He was awarded the honorary title of "Two Presidents of the Republic of Guinea" by President Segou Toure. Nkrumah hopes to return to the motherland and regain power with the support of Segou Toure. He also hoped that Tanzanian President Nyerere would send an expeditionary force to help him return to China to seize power. Many African countries, including Segou Toure and Nyerere, have expressed sympathy and support for nkrumah, but they can't and can't help nkrumah regain power, because it involves the international law of inter-state relations.

Nkrumah had no choice but to settle in Guinea and never returned to Ghana in his lifetime. Since then, nkrumah has been devoted to discussing the African national liberation movement and the development path of African countries after independence. In his book Dark Days in Ghana, he summed up the reasons for the military coup in Ghana. He believes that the coup in Ghana was not caused by his economic policy mistakes, but a conspiracy of imperialism and domestic reactionaries, which was intended to "stop and reverse the socialist process in Ghana". He drew two points: first, if African independent countries want to survive, they must pursue a thorough socialist policy; Second, we must strive for the complete liberation of the African continent and the establishment of an all-African Coalition government.

In his later years, nkrumah studied, wrote, gave interviews, cared for gardens and entertained guests. Although he no longer holds public office, he feels that western intelligence agencies are still threatening his personal safety. Especially when his chef died mysteriously, he was worried that someone would try to poison him, and he hoarded food at home. He suspected that foreign agents had stolen his personal mail and lived in fear of kidnapping and assassination for a long time, which made his physical condition worse (similar to Stalin's later years). For those reactionary soldiers and politicians who came to power in Ghana, although nkrumah fell, he still has a high reputation in the world and many followers in Ghana. Therefore, in their view, the existence of nkrumah itself is a threat.