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GH₵200 — DR KWAME NKRUMAH (1909–1972) Theme: Sovereignty ⭐ A pan-Africanist, political theorist and Ghana's founding leader, born at Nkroful in the Western Region. He studied at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania from 1935, graduating in 1939, and then earned master's degrees from Lincoln and the University of Pennsylvania. He returned home in 1947 to work with the United Gold Coast Convention. In 1949 he broke away to form the Convention People's Party, launched before a crowd of about 60,000 in Accra on 12 June 1949. In January 1950 he launched "Positive Action", a campaign of nonviolent protests, strikes and non-cooperation with British colonial rule, and was arrested after riots followed. While still in prison he won the Accra Central seat in February 1951, taking 22,780 of 23,122 votes. He was released the same month to form a government. He became the Gold Coast's first Prime Minister on 22 March 1952 and led the colony to independence as Ghana on 6 March 1957. He later became the country's first President. He built major national projects, including the Akosombo Hydroelectric Dam, the industrial city of Tema, the Accra–Tema Motorway and the Adomi Bridge. He also wrote over 20 books on political theory and Pan-Africanism. He was overthrown in a military coup on 24 February 1966 while abroad on a peace mission to Vietnam. He lived in exile in Guinea, where President Sékou Touré made him honorary co-president. He died of cancer in Bucharest, Romania, on 27 April 1972, and was buried at Nkroful on 7 July 1972. The reverse features the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra, home to his mausoleum and statue.

GH₵50 — THEODOSIA SALOME OKOH (1922–2015) Theme: Nationalism 🇬🇭 A Ghanaian teacher, artist and sportswoman from Anum in the Eastern Region, who designed Ghana's national flag in 1957. Its red stands for the blood shed in the independence struggle, gold for our mineral wealth, green for forests and natural resources, and the Black Star for African freedom. She was the first woman to chair the Ghana Hockey Association, and Accra's national hockey stadium bears her name. The reverse features Jubilee House, the seat of the presidency.