Ghana · 1957–1966
Kwame Nkrumah
Pan-African socialist. State-led development that slid into a one-party presidency.
Kwame Nkrumah is on the world-leaders chart for Ghana, 1957–1966. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Pan-African socialist. State-led development that slid into a one-party presidency.
The dot is economics -52 and authority +50, on a scale from −100 to +100. That is left of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Left means a larger public role. Up means more authority. Neither direction is treated as the correct one.
A second note separates what was said in public from what the government then did. Said: Independence now, and a socialist pan-African state. Done: Independence, then a one-party presidency and detention laws. He was overthrown. The gap, when there is one, is part of the placement. A promise that was kept and a promise that was dropped are not given the same weight.
The nearest other figures on these two numbers are Hugo Chávez (Venezuela, -58 / +54) and Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt, -38 / +60). Nearest means nearest on the chart, not alike in character.
Two governments can share a number and share nothing else. The source is the public governing record, not a news write-up and not a campaign advertisement.