Today, Monday, September 21 has been declared a statutory holiday in commemoration of the 117th birth anniversary of Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day is an annual event marking the birth of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, born on September 21, 1909, in Nkroful, near Axim, in the Nzema East Municipality of Ghana’s Western Region.