Nkrumah Did Not Force His Views On African Leaders

Read Article

Comments (35)

This article is closed for comments.

Read Comments Comments (35)

francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear readers,

This is Part 1.

Thanks.

Dear readers,

This is Part 1.

Thanks.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

You home grown villager Kwarteng, read your paragraph 3 carefully and see what sort of contradicting garbage you have copied and pasted.

You home grown villager Kwarteng, read your paragraph 3 carefully and see what sort of contradicting garbage you have copied and pasted.
ASAMOAH OMONO 9 years ago

thank you very much Kwarteng.I wish that Ghanaians will be of age and stop this our unenlightened sentiments about Dr. Nkrumah. We as a nation can still use him to draw money into Ghana for its benefits. shockingly the Twi sp ...
read full comment

thank you very much Kwarteng.I wish that Ghanaians will be of age and stop this our unenlightened sentiments about Dr. Nkrumah. We as a nation can still use him to draw money into Ghana for its benefits. shockingly the Twi speaking Ghanaians do not want us to get nostrils to breath through about Dr. Nkrumah. " se wo anya biribi am'a w'ase a yenbo no krono. Nkrumah deserves thanks from Ghanaians
Menes Tau 9 years ago

Kwateng! You should consider joining the Volta Times, check out voltatimes.com where African intellectuals meet in the safest space to discuss issues concerning Africa! Shoot menestau@gmail.com an email and let us get togethe ...
read full comment

Kwateng! You should consider joining the Volta Times, check out voltatimes.com where African intellectuals meet in the safest space to discuss issues concerning Africa! Shoot menestau@gmail.com an email and let us get together to enlighten our peoples. Thanks for this piece. It is completely exhilarating.
BEST!
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

The bone I will continue to pick with Nkrumahists and Danquahists is the failure of both ideological perspectives to sink their teeth into the future perspective.

Ghana and Africa and the world in the 1950's to 1970's was ...
read full comment

The bone I will continue to pick with Nkrumahists and Danquahists is the failure of both ideological perspectives to sink their teeth into the future perspective.

Ghana and Africa and the world in the 1950's to 1970's was totally different, and Ghana, Africa and our planet in 2050 and 2070 will be completely unrecognizable, that we need to craft alternative futures, addressing possible futures, probable futures, and preferable futures for Ghana, Africa and the world.
Abra Kuma 9 years ago

Dear Marcus Ampadu,

I do share your concern about our country's future and the need to find practical solutions to our current economic problems; however, I believe where Francis Kwarteng is concerned, our admiration for h ...
read full comment

Dear Marcus Ampadu,

I do share your concern about our country's future and the need to find practical solutions to our current economic problems; however, I believe where Francis Kwarteng is concerned, our admiration for his systematic,in depth research and data compilation capabilities is clouding your judgment about his true contributions to Ghana's present development.By that I mean it is precisely his accurate recording of historical events that will help shape the minds of future Ghanaians and subsequently bring us back onto a nationalistic path.It is our good fortune that he apparently takes pleasure in what he does because we are more likely to get the best results from him.As he explained, his engineering and mathematics backgrounds add to the accuracy of his submissions. Although it is difficult to resist continuous antagonistic baiting,he must be mindful that responding to them degrades the quality of his work and demeans his scholarly person.

Also I do agree that we would all be better served if the Danquahists and Nkrumahists would focus on practical and innovative ways to create and save energy in Ghanaian households and businesses for starters.Once we start to invest time and effort in our behalf, outside investors will appreciate our diligence and contribute where they deem necessary.

One heart, one mind!
mensah 9 years ago

Hello Francis, this is brilliant. Where are you "hiding"?.I am sure you've made the professor 'know all' start thinking and asking himself "Ah why did I (know all) not know/read this." More of your stuff Mr Kwarteng. As some ...
read full comment

Hello Francis, this is brilliant. Where are you "hiding"?.I am sure you've made the professor 'know all' start thinking and asking himself "Ah why did I (know all) not know/read this." More of your stuff Mr Kwarteng. As some of us used to say "tutu bra".I should also give my thanks to Professor (know-all). Reason-if it hadn't been for him you would have kept all this good stuff to yourself. Don't be selfish, bring it all out. Can't wait for the next piece.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

mensah,
We agree!

This is a at core a brilliant essay, superbly written, a touch scholarly for Ghanaweb readers. But, so it goes!

ITEM: As it is, using flowery language to beatify the so-called "Francophone" countries, ...
read full comment

mensah,
We agree!

This is a at core a brilliant essay, superbly written, a touch scholarly for Ghanaweb readers. But, so it goes!

ITEM: As it is, using flowery language to beatify the so-called "Francophone" countries, their leaders in particular, in a wild attempt to position them as past/current defenders of Africa or progressive vision for the average African, is absurd, and will remain so to inanity!

Why?

Because we have General de Gaulle's record from the 1950s-1960s, and "FRANCE VIEWS PAN-AFRICANISM AS A THREAT TO WESTERN INTERESTS IN AFRICA IN GENERAL AND FRENCH INTERESTS IN AFRICA IN PARTICULAR (A French Defense Report, October 2012)."

Now, France is sweating with a Patriot-type act even more expansive than the American version.

Looks like most "Francophone" Africans in France never got their total French benefits in France.

Penny-wise, pound foolish!

Thanks, Francis Kwarteng.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Indeed, great piece as usual. UNFORTUNATELY, its import is lost on most readers, and worse, it doesn't reach the much larger public. That's why the book compilation is relevant.

When I first mentioned on Okyeame in the mi ...
read full comment

Indeed, great piece as usual. UNFORTUNATELY, its import is lost on most readers, and worse, it doesn't reach the much larger public. That's why the book compilation is relevant.

When I first mentioned on Okyeame in the mid-90s the demand to restore the slave trade by Yaa Asantewaa's group, there was an uproar. But, as usual, they ate crow after some had investigated. I wasn't being anti-Asante as some against people were saying. I simply wanted a new vision built on new ideas which embrace all Africans, and I found it in pan-Africanism and Nkrumahism; not such revisionist lies and distortions of our history. As a scion of people who were allied to the Asantes and had fought on their sides during the Sagrenti War when even some constitute parts of Asante proper had failed to rally to the battlefield, I've no reason to see Asantes as historical enemies.

I am glad that we have in Nyebro Yaw an Asante who is enlightened and clear-minded enough to tell it as it were, and as it is today! Together with people like him, we shall cross the river and finish the job Kwame started.

Andy-K
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Yours, in Ghana-centeredness!

Yours, in Ghana-centeredness!
KanyeEast 9 years ago

This is great. Hey, Francis, listen to this advice. Find a good reviewer(s) and an editor to go through this and past essays on Nkrumah only to clean up typos and simple errors, and then compile all your related writings into ...
read full comment

This is great. Hey, Francis, listen to this advice. Find a good reviewer(s) and an editor to go through this and past essays on Nkrumah only to clean up typos and simple errors, and then compile all your related writings into a book to be sold in Ghana, in bookshops, schools, and on the streets of Ghana. These your writings on Nkrumah are easily marketable not only in Ghana but in other African countries. I think you should seriously consider the idea.

You have made my day with this one write-up. Thanks.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

KanyeEast, are you the only stranger in Jerusalem?

The books from which Kwarteng copied his paragraphs are already existing in the market. All what you read from Kwarteng are copied compilation of paragraphs from differen ...
read full comment

KanyeEast, are you the only stranger in Jerusalem?

The books from which Kwarteng copied his paragraphs are already existing in the market. All what you read from Kwarteng are copied compilation of paragraphs from different writers. Kwarteng cannot bring a complete sentence without a grammatic mistake.
NOKWARE ASA 9 years ago

Madam Adjoa Wangara why don't you tell us the books Kwarteng is copying and pasting from?

In Wangaraland you can say " ..without grammatical mistake", and get away with, but here we say grammatical misteke.

Madam Adjoa Wangara why don't you tell us the books Kwarteng is copying and pasting from?

In Wangaraland you can say " ..without grammatical mistake", and get away with, but here we say grammatical misteke.
Koo Nimo 9 years ago

NOKWARE ASA, your English too is finished.

NOKWARE ASA, your English too is finished.
SERVANT OF GOD 9 years ago

GREAT PIECE, BRO

GREAT PIECE, BRO
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

Author: Pa Kofi F. Amponsa-Dadzie
Date: 2015-05-09 11:22:25
Comment to: To the NPP’s Eugene Antwi: Fantes aren’t fools

Ghanaians lie too much, especially CPP children, and we know them all. They never stop lying ab ...
read full comment

Author: Pa Kofi F. Amponsa-Dadzie
Date: 2015-05-09 11:22:25
Comment to: To the NPP’s Eugene Antwi: Fantes aren’t fools

Ghanaians lie too much, especially CPP children, and we know them all. They never stop lying about people who are even dead. CPP-NDC have this fetish of bypassing those who have actually caused our downfall to attacking innocent people. They are always rewriting history for political expediency. This writer basis his lies on lies of a pathological liar, Tony Aidoo who lied so grievously about Nana Baafour Akoto. But the truth is always there but tedious to narrate it because it's sacred...and I will say this true life story herein...
When my Father was sent into exile by Nkrumah in 1958 and subsequently assassinated in 1962 by his communist gendarmerie, my Mom suffered exceedingly. By 1965, we had had our electricity cut off...When I was 6 years, my house was a very sad place with women looking after so many children with proceeds from their petty trading. My mother sold fried plantains (Kakro) and beans and fried small fish to sell. She was often in debt and in sorrow, and would call us into the room to pray for our next meal. I was 6 years old. And we saw miracles...A big 23-seater Mercedes Benz car would come in the mid -afternoon to Turom, Cape Coast, pack in front of our house and the driver would loudly announce - Please...I am from Kumasi and want the wife of Late Kofi Amponsa-Dadzie. They would all point out my Mother, selling her 'kyenam' or kakro. The driver and mate would then bring out bunches of plantain, cocoyam, sweet potatoes...the plantain was a lot always...and tell my Mom in my presence that 'Nana Baafour Akoto, Chief Linquist had asked them to bring the items, and an envelope'. My mom would thank them and look at us...to marvel at wonders of God. Baafour Akoto was the only one who helped my mother in her days of agony. We never saw him but heard a lot about him...It's difficult to argue with Nkrumaists-CPP-NDC revolutionary demagogues...lies are part of their constitution. That is why Ghana is so poor...They kill, exile, imprison, confiscate properties of innocent people while thieves, murderers and nation wreckers go scot free...These pathological liars are well organised agents of disinformation hiding behind false names to propagate their politics of tribalism...but the evil that men do lives after them...
James Obeng 9 years ago

What do you expect Kofi Amponsah Dadzie to say? His father was an accomplice of Busia,J.B.Danquah and Baffour Osei Akoto.I want Kofi Amponsah Dadzie to come out boldly and deny that Baffour Osei Akoto spearheaded and mastermi ...
read full comment

What do you expect Kofi Amponsah Dadzie to say? His father was an accomplice of Busia,J.B.Danquah and Baffour Osei Akoto.I want Kofi Amponsah Dadzie to come out boldly and deny that Baffour Osei Akoto spearheaded and masterminded the atrocities which claimed many innocent lives.This biased and ignorant Kofi Amponsah Dadzie who as six years in 1965 should go back and research into the MATEHEMO atrocities which was planned and executed by Baffour Akoto.Baffour Akoto was sympathetic to his mother,a widow because of the criminal and evil relations he had with his late father.
James Obeng 9 years ago

This biased and ignorant Kofi Amponsah Dadzie who was six years old in 1965

This biased and ignorant Kofi Amponsah Dadzie who was six years old in 1965
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear James Obeng,

I attended secondary school with one of the Amponsah Dadzies, a close buddy of mine in those days. We were in the same house!

I know a lot about that family and their political affiliations, which will ...
read full comment

Dear James Obeng,

I attended secondary school with one of the Amponsah Dadzies, a close buddy of mine in those days. We were in the same house!

I know a lot about that family and their political affiliations, which will come at a later date.

Thanks.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Goodness, these Danquah folks don't get a break. WE imagine the world is a lot smaller than they think.

Last time it was Daddy Kludze and hidden truth by the copy/paste presenter. Then we found Kludze the son, a scientist ...
read full comment

Goodness, these Danquah folks don't get a break. WE imagine the world is a lot smaller than they think.

Last time it was Daddy Kludze and hidden truth by the copy/paste presenter. Then we found Kludze the son, a scientist whose concept of time with respect to Akosombo "Foresight" couldn't travel beyond Kufour and his NPP Presidency, when it ought to be clear to any village idiot that Akosombo was built and commissioned by Kwame Nkrumah!

Now, the Amponsah Dadzies will not catch any break, clearly not from
James Obeng or Francis Kwarteng, least of all for objectivity, balance, and Ghana-centeredness.

We now know the thing to call that!

The Kludze - When you've subverted a government, or otherwise benefited from the non-discriminatory programs of the government - a Unitary government that does not believe in, or condone a "spoil system". By hook or crook, you and your kith and kin then turn around to discredit that same government. You publish publications that totally disregard the global context in which African-centered governments, vis Francophone/puppet governments, must operate. You posit that democracy is total in America - everyone one has freedom, including Blacks and Indians. You posit that capitalism is total in America and Europe - there is not an iota of socialism in American and Europe. Then you leave your records for all to see, and use.

ITEM: Subject to future revisions and improvements, that, we submit, is a Kludze!

Fortunately, we will always see through all of that and respond, accordingly!

Peace!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Prof. Lungu,

You don't say.

Not only was Amponsah-Dadzie in the same house with me. House 3 had three separate rooms: Sixth formers occupied the middle one while others, the so-called juniors, occupied the other t ...
read full comment

Dear Prof. Lungu,

You don't say.

Not only was Amponsah-Dadzie in the same house with me. House 3 had three separate rooms: Sixth formers occupied the middle one while others, the so-called juniors, occupied the other two. Amponsah Dadzie and I shared the same room (Room A). The world is a small place indeed.

Prof. Lungu, there is so much for me to say that I don't even know where to begin!

Thanks.
Michael Asiedu 9 years ago

DR SAS claims he has bought 14 cars so he is better than Nkrumah.Readers,please ignore this psychiatric patient.

DR SAS claims he has bought 14 cars so he is better than Nkrumah.Readers,please ignore this psychiatric patient.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Michael Asiedu,
Here is our general statement - one of our operational principles: It is not directed at Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law.

ITEM: Even village idiots and madmen can be profound in any number of directions. Sometime ...
read full comment

Michael Asiedu,
Here is our general statement - one of our operational principles: It is not directed at Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law.

ITEM: Even village idiots and madmen can be profound in any number of directions. Sometimes, there is something we can learn from them, if even about ourselves.

We may dismiss some actions and activities of the village idiot and madman. However, we cannot dismiss all the actions and activities of the village idiot and he madman all the time.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

No doubt, Nkrumah is the poison ivy of the African leadership conundrum, and even its economic and educational failures. Having been extensively trained in the USA and in the UK, he returned to Africa without any intention to ...
read full comment

No doubt, Nkrumah is the poison ivy of the African leadership conundrum, and even its economic and educational failures. Having been extensively trained in the USA and in the UK, he returned to Africa without any intention to replicate the democratic dispensation in those western civilizations, but rather to exploit the existing leadership culture of tyranny for the purpose of his own perpetual self- aggrandizement. Thus he appropriated for himself the title of the Osagyefo hitherto reserved for chieftains, and conferred upon himself the permanency of traditional rule while abjuring its concomitant accountability. He also had a crier sing his appellations and describe his feats in super-human terms at functions. He abolished free speech and hence suppressed criticism of his flaws and instituted for himself some kind of one party state within which dissent became anathema in Ghana’s political context. Meanwhile, he broached no competition from these traditional rulers, once threatening that he would make them run, leaving their sandals behind. In this, Nkrumah behaved as an absolute monarch with the divine right to misrule.
As the poison ivy of the African leadership template, Nkrumah’s leadership became an example for many African tyrants who oppressed their people. And his overthrow was also an adumbration to the many military coups in Africa that brought to power the likes of Iddi Amin, Emperor Bokasa, Siad Barre, Yayah Jammeh and Eyadema. At present his greatest minion and student is Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe who intends to rule for life. As a pioneer in the African leadership experiment, he led in the abolition of the basic freedoms of the citizenry and trampled on their independence. He abolished the pluralistic democratic dispensation, the habeas corpus, freedom of the press, freedom of creative entertainment, the freedom of association and the freedom of the franchise, destroying the pride and dignity of the people to have a choice in their leadership, and subjecting them to a reign of terror hitherto unknown in the Ghanaian civil leadership.

Under these severe
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

Nkrumah went beyond his dictatorship to destroy the minds of the people to accept tyranny as liberty, and propaganda as gospel truth, and revisionism as good history, and long after his death, our most educated citizens have ...
read full comment

Nkrumah went beyond his dictatorship to destroy the minds of the people to accept tyranny as liberty, and propaganda as gospel truth, and revisionism as good history, and long after his death, our most educated citizens have their minds obnubilated by his fiction, and the truth is not something they can see, speak or hear. That is why the future of our country is bleak.
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

The future of our country is bleak, not because of Dr. Kramer Nkrumah, but because elites like you are so fixated on the past that we have failed woefully to be future focused. When was the last you, Kwarteng, Ahoofe and Prof ...
read full comment

The future of our country is bleak, not because of Dr. Kramer Nkrumah, but because elites like you are so fixated on the past that we have failed woefully to be future focused. When was the last you, Kwarteng, Ahoofe and Prof. Lungu talked extensively about the futures of our country.

If we want to avoid a gloomy future for Ghana, we have to envisage it and plan for it, no ifs and buts. We can't dwell at length on what Nkrumah and Danquah did or failed to do.
mensah abrampa 9 years ago

Thanks bro Marcus Ampadu. That's exactly my point. Francis Kwarteng has turned himself into a serial bootlicking eulogist but does not care whether Ghanaians live or die. He and others like him should leave the dead to think ...
read full comment

Thanks bro Marcus Ampadu. That's exactly my point. Francis Kwarteng has turned himself into a serial bootlicking eulogist but does not care whether Ghanaians live or die. He and others like him should leave the dead to think about their fellow dead and allow those still living to think and plan for the living. Time is of the essence so why do we waste precious moments talking about the dead? Enough is enough.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

You blokes are really shallow-minded. Complete air-heads.

The last time I checked, Jesus
Christ and Mohammed had been dead for over a 1000 years! And yet, I learned, Africans are flocking more and more to the falsehood t ...
read full comment

You blokes are really shallow-minded. Complete air-heads.

The last time I checked, Jesus
Christ and Mohammed had been dead for over a 1000 years! And yet, I learned, Africans are flocking more and more to the falsehood they preached and represent!

You blokes are beyond mental liberation! You can't even think!

Andy-K
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

For your information C. Y. ANDY-K. , please do not include me in the blokes who "can't even think!". Just read over what I wrote and tell me whether or not I'm a thinking being.

Those who are quick to heap insults, usuall ...
read full comment

For your information C. Y. ANDY-K. , please do not include me in the blokes who "can't even think!". Just read over what I wrote and tell me whether or not I'm a thinking being.

Those who are quick to heap insults, usually don't have much to contribute.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Marcus, I didn't have you in mind when I wrote the comment, even though you started the trend on the shallow unthinking chain. You are not blameless. Have you seen the havoc. ethnic conflict, for instance, has been causing in ...
read full comment

Marcus, I didn't have you in mind when I wrote the comment, even though you started the trend on the shallow unthinking chain. You are not blameless. Have you seen the havoc. ethnic conflict, for instance, has been causing in Africa?

I am astounded that you couldn't deduce from the writings of the persons you mentioned that they have been writing about the way forward for we Africans. Gosh! If you have a clue about what Nyebro Yaw wrote about the rampant, debilitating, devious and destructive roles the French have been playing in Africa, which make the CIA and the M15 appear like novices, you'd be grateful that he spent his valuable time to write about it. I was in Christian Michelsen Inst., Bergen, Norway, when that body's Dr Astri Suhrke (google her and start learning something), together with York Univ., wrote the water-down Report on the Rwanda massacres. For just merely the role the French played in supporting the Hutu regime and even as teh massacres started long before the big one, and how such support, even from Mandela, hindered the UN, Kofi Annan in particular who was compelled to advice UN withdrawal, the French wanted their $50000 contribution towards the writing of the Report. How could anyone write about the failure of the world to respond quickly to the humanitarian needs or whatever after the disaster without delving a bit into shenanigans of poweful countries such as France and Belgium and even S. African who were arming the Hutus, and Uganda who was arming the Tutsis?

And the 5m Congolese dead since that period, because Mobutu was compelled by the French to send troops to Rwanda to help the Hutus? Ah! You want to condemn xenophobia and Afrphobia in S. Africa instead. Hmmm! Remove the bigger logs in your eyes first. Ever heard of Aliens Compliance Order, or read the pinheads who come to Ghanaweb to be insulting Ewes and people from Northern Ghana simply cos their ancestors were great slave raiders and traders?

Btw, do you know the people from whom Yaa Asantewaa and her cohorts wanted the slave trade to be restored so that "proud Asantes" can continue selling captives and tributes to the British, who btw, were their biggest customers?

Andy-K
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Nyebro Yao,

I rest my case.

Excellent summary!

Thanks!

Nyebro Yao,

I rest my case.

Excellent summary!

Thanks!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Readers,

The word "Francophone" in PARAGRAPH 12 should read "FRANCAFR1QUE."

That part of the paragraph reads thus:

"A Wikileaks cable also says: "BONGO WAS FRANCE’S ‘FAVORITE PRESIDENT IN AFRICA,' AND 'THIS ...
read full comment

Dear Readers,

The word "Francophone" in PARAGRAPH 12 should read "FRANCAFR1QUE."

That part of the paragraph reads thus:

"A Wikileaks cable also says: "BONGO WAS FRANCE’S ‘FAVORITE PRESIDENT IN AFRICA,' AND 'THIS IS CLASSIC FRANCAFRIQUE.'"
mensah abrampa 9 years ago

My assessment of your feature writing is it's just too long, boring, disjointed and pointless. What are you trying so hard to prove that a marathon session of mudslinging everyone that would serve your vain ambitions and purp ...
read full comment

My assessment of your feature writing is it's just too long, boring, disjointed and pointless. What are you trying so hard to prove that a marathon session of mudslinging everyone that would serve your vain ambitions and purposes could not achieve?
Why am I even worrying myself? This bootlicking eulogy and many before it epitomize the ghanaian undying zealotry for the dead. You make ugly noises every week about a dictator who died about 50 years ago but don't give a damn about how your fellow citizens survive from day to day. Why don't you convert this energy you're wasting into book writing. Yes, I dare you to put your thoughts in books and let's see how many copies you'll sell. That will give you a pretty good idea how much people love or hate your writings.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

All of this may be "boring, disjointed and pointless", "gloomy", "bleak", and "Fixated in the past", in your eyes.

But as C.Y. ANDY-K has observed above, the solutions are embedded in the principles - they rarely change, ...
read full comment

All of this may be "boring, disjointed and pointless", "gloomy", "bleak", and "Fixated in the past", in your eyes.

But as C.Y. ANDY-K has observed above, the solutions are embedded in the principles - they rarely change, globalization and advanced knowledge notwithstanding. They speak of the roles of all the players, including Kwame Nkrumah.

So, if you seriously believe Nkrumah's ideas and principles have no relevance for you and Ghana today, our final statement to you would be the old, "boring", colloquial: You can head a horse to the stream and make the horse stand in the water, but you cannot force the horse to drink.

Greetings!
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago

It is rather unfortunate that you Prof. Lungu is twisting my words to suit to what you want to write. I sincerely share the view that Dr.Kwame Nkrumah's views have relevance for Ghana and Africa, and peace on earth.

Unlik ...
read full comment

It is rather unfortunate that you Prof. Lungu is twisting my words to suit to what you want to write. I sincerely share the view that Dr.Kwame Nkrumah's views have relevance for Ghana and Africa, and peace on earth.

Unlike some of you, he wasn't grossly fixated on the past. Of course he was aware of the greatness of Egypt, Axum, Monomatapa, and Bilad-Es-Sudan, but essentially he devoted his time and writings to fight against colonialism & imperialism, resist the Balkanization of Africa, and undertook measures to industrialize our country, planned for energy and agricultural sufficiencies, and worked to improve
education, and even built nuclear reactors, all the time thinking about the futures of Ghana & Africa.
So ...?

Nkrumah Did Not Force His Views On African Leaders

Read Comments .st0{display:none;fill:#14BDD3;} .st1{display:none;} .st2{display:inline;fill:#FC0F0F;} .st3{display:inline;fill:#FFFFFF;} .st4{display:inline;fill:none;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:6;stroke-miterlimit:10;} Comments (35)

Read Comments Comments (35)