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Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana�s first President has grown to become sufficiently controversial in Ghanaian politics but not many know the path he has traveled to his current standing. As part of the effort to clarify his history and views on a number of issues, Dr. Nkrumah has ventured into the turbulent arena of publishing and has told his own story in a 75-page book. The book strangely titled �A Fatherless Child� starts off as love story and then dwells on the inner happenings of a President�s son who by some strange circumstances is rendered �fatherless�. According to the promoters of the book it �goes deeper into a search for identity and values that a man can hold onto in this life. �This novel is also a narration of the author�s long struggle with depression after his return to his homeland, as he tries to adjust to a new environment and cope with the breakup of his first marriage and the departure of his son.�Even the birth of his second child, his daughter, does not seem to lift his depressed mood.� According to the promoters, Sekou�s love affair with beautiful Tara finally �changed his fortunes�. Dr. Nkrumah the youngest of Nkrumah�s offspring was born inAccra in 1963 and named after the Guinean President Ahmed Sekou Toure. Barely three years after his birth, his father Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in a bloody coup sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America. Dr. Nkrumah eventually obtained his PhD in Romania and returned to Ghana in the turbulent days of 1991. On his return, he joined the Adu Boahen led Movement for Freedom and Justice (MFJ) and vigorously campaigned for the restoration of multi-party democracy in Ghana. Later he joined the Peoples Convention Party (PCP) then led by Alhaji Asuma Banda. In 2008, Sekou joined the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and campaigned for the candidature of Professor John Evan Atta Mills. Sekou has since fallen out with Professor Mills but he remains a loyal member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).