Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria) and Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) were the first Presidents of their country.

Both lost the Presidency through a military coup in the same year, 1966.

Both attended the same tertiary institutions; Lincoln University and the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania (both in the United States of America).

The oldest building in Lincoln University, Azikiwe-Nkrumah hall is named after them.

Both Azikiwe and Nkrumah were members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. #Historyisourpride

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