Samiah Nkrumah, the only daughter of Ghana's first president, Hon. Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) will present, for the first time in the US, her own leadership story, some of which is included in the appendix to a new work by Prof. Carole Boyce Davies, titled Black Women's Rights. Leadership and the Circularities of Power which will be simultaneously launched for the Cornell campus. The Black Women and Political Leadership class brings to campus each year it is offered a Black woman leader whose work students read and who in many ways represents the logic of the class to make visible, study and engage Black women who have taken leadership roles in Africa and the African Diaspora. The event will also include a presentation by Prof. Boyce Davies on the content of the book followed by a conversation with Hon. Samiah Nkrumah who has also served as a political representative in the Republic of Ghana.

Hon. Samia Nkrumah is the daughter of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of the Republic of Ghana. She was born on 23rd June, 1960 at Aburi, Ghana. She is a professional journalist and a politician.

She started working as a bank clerk at Bank of India (London branch) in 1984.From 1989; Samia Nkrumah worked as a journalist with Al-Ahram.

In the year 2008, she contested for the parliamentary seat and for the first attempt and won

(Jomoro Constituency).In the year 2011, she was elected as the first woman chairperson of her father's founding party (CONVENTION PEOPLES PARTY).