Hello and welcome to Legacy.

Afwa, this is someone you'd be wanted to do pretty much from the beginning.

So nervous, we're going to do justice to this individual.

Stakes are high for this one, Peter.

I've basically got every gun in I've ever known, holding me to a very high bar

because today we're tackling really the founding father of modern Ghana and a huge figure

in my personal family story in the birth of Ghana, but not just Ghana, the whole African continent,

because, as we'll hear, he was a pioneer for everyone who was colonised by the British and

really all European empires. So yeah, big subject, no pressure.

Okay, well, why don't we start by listening to and Krumer and hearing what his voice sounds like?

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to Akra and to this conference of African freedom fighters

and supporters of the growing movement

for Africa's liberation and unity.

Hello and welcome to a new episode of Legacy. I'm Peter Frankipur. I'm Afrohash.

And this is Legacy, the show that explores the lives, events, and ideas that have shaped our world and asks whether they have

the reputations that they truly deserve. This is Kwame and Krumer Episode 1, The Good Subject.

Afrogo on, start us off about who we were listening to. Start us off about who Kraman Khrman Krumer was.

Khami and Krumer was the first leader of modern Ghana because during his childhood, it was the Gold Coast.

It was regarded not just as a British colony, but Britain's model colony. And he ran riot through that system of colonial world order and led Ghana to become the first

black African nation to free itself from colonial rule.

But he wasn't just thinking about Gold Coast in Ghana.

He was a philosopher.

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