Opinions of Thursday, 25 September 2025
Columnist: Arhin Otoo
As we honor Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah on Founder's Day, we should do well to remember the great ideas he left for us to continue his legacy.
He gave us philosophical Consciencism and at least 15 books that embody his ideological guidance for African revolutionaries.
As we remember our founding father, we should do well to instill his ideas in the younger generation.
Kwame Nkrumah's intellectual works are the bedrocks to liberate Ghana and Africa from the shackles of imperialism.
He demonstrates the need to value the African personality and to subject all our religious and cultural experiences to our African personality.
Kwame Nkrumah demonstrated the need to value Conscience and African traditional values as a guide to undoing colonial mentality.
He also set a blueprint for the economic policies necessary to bolster and industrialise Africa's economy, taking control of our resources, import substitution industries, socialist economic planning, and African unity.
All Nkrumahists must henceforth carry on a new narrative on the Founder's Day.
We must move beyond what Nkrumah had done and start emphasising what he wanted to do (a united socialist Africa).
The best way to honor Kwame Nkrumah is to complete the revolution he started.
As he predicted, "I am in the Knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which I have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after I am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all
people".
It rests upon every Nkrumahist to carry on the torch of Nkrumahism until Africa is free and united, and her wealth no longer serves overseas interests but Africans.