[6] She returned with her family in the year 1975 at the invitation of General Acheampong's National Redemption Council government and attended Achimota School.

[7] In an article about her, entitled "The new Mandela is a woman", the Huffington Post described and analyzed her impact on Ghanaian and African politics.

[11] Samia Nkrumah, a former member of parliament and chair of a major political party in Ghana, urged the president to veto an anti-LGBT bill, calling it “brutal, harsh, and unjust.” On February 28, Ghana’s parliament passed a draconian bill that increases criminal penalties for consensual same-sex conduct and criminalizes individuals and organizations who advocate for the rights of LGBT people.

This includes a memo from Ghana’s finance minister to the president, warning of the bill’s disastrous economic consequences if it were to become law.

[12] In December 2008, she contested the Jomoro constituency seat in the Western Region of Ghana and beat the incumbent MP, Lee Ocran of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) with a majority of 6,571, winning about 50% of the total valid votes cast.

Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957.

[4] An influential advocate of pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962.

She also has an older half-brother, Professor Francis Nkrumah,[23] a retired lecturer and consultant pediatrician who worked as a director at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Legon, Ghana.