Following his overthrow, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah made an attempt to retake power.

When the disparate pieces of knowledge are pieced together, it becomes clear that Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the founding president of Ghana, had sought to retake the presidency but for the betrayals of some of his appointees who perished with him in the overthrow of 1966.

He traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, on a peace mission but was unable to return since a coup took place while he was away. The reflective Nkrumah remembered "Handshakes and the expressions of good wishes from Harlley (et al)" while he was in exile. These friendly, smiling men were constantly considering betrayal and treason. Even though they eventually dropped the plan, they had planned to kill me on the last day.

I remember shaking hands with Major General Barwah, who was killed in cold blood three days later when he refused to hand himself over to the soldiers of the rebel army, the speaker added. I had no idea at the time that I would never see him again, or that Kojo Botsio, Kofi Baako, and other ministers who were present at the airport would soon be apprehended by renegade soldiers and police officers and imprisoned with Zanerigu, Commander of the Presidential Guard Regiment.

In the declassified information seen in the circled portion of the image above, we learn that Dr. Nkrumah also went by the name Kofi Wea, which was written on a poster surrounded by joyous Accra crowds.

According to the deep-voiced source, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was fighting to regain his position as leader, but the fraternity that had surrounded him prior to the coup collapsed as a result of the terrible events that followed his ouster.

The National Liberation Council's administration threatened to seize the homes of Nkrumah's top aides if they were unable to prove how they came by their money. It claimed those who were unable to demonstrate the sources of their material advantages swiftly became double agents and spies for the junta's intelligence agencies.

The rumor mill was unmistakable in its assertion that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah wanted to surprise the coup plotters and return to power within a year, but for the "fallen" nature of his political allies who lived in Ghana. The chief source said, "Unfortunately, many of the men (or so-called Nkrumaists) who had enjoyed life in positions of substance and trust under his leadership back in Ghana before the 1966 revolution that dethroned him shamefully destroyed these extensive and hard efforts.

According to a quote from Dr. Nkrumah, "It is a great disappointment and sorrow that I often reiterated, that if Nkrumah's top political associates in Ghana had not sold their consciences for bread and butter, the ex-President would have regained power in less than a year after his overthrow."

Sekou Toure, the leader of Guinea Conakry at the time, appointed him as a co-president of his nation, but Nkrumah's life force slowly dwindled due to cancer. Before the new military chief of Ghana, Gen. Kutu Acheampong, ordered for the relocation of his remains, which were buried in his hometown, Nkroful in the Western region of Ghana, he passed away in a hospital in Romania and had a temporary burial place in Guinea.

Another military commander, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, directed the building of a mausoleum where Nkrumah was eventually buried. His Egyptian wife Fathia passed away in Cairo in 2007 and was buried there as well. The area is currently a tourist hotspot. The African Union named Dr. Kwame Nkrumah the continent's person of the century, beating out Nelson Mandela of South Africa and other key figures.

First president of Ghana and a pioneer of pan-Africanism, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, is interred in a mausoleum in the heart of Accra.