Great piece. In fact, they have ignited the whole reason why we have to revisit history and do a proper teaching and documentation. I have sadly read only one of his autobiographies and I am grateful for you list of his books ... read full comment
Great piece. In fact, they have ignited the whole reason why we have to revisit history and do a proper teaching and documentation. I have sadly read only one of his autobiographies and I am grateful for you list of his books.
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Braveboy,
As usual, thank you for the encouragement. It is very hard researching, writing and editing articles throughout the night. I do so altruistically, because I am very disappointed in the squabbling, IMF_SAP loving ... read full comment
Braveboy,
As usual, thank you for the encouragement. It is very hard researching, writing and editing articles throughout the night. I do so altruistically, because I am very disappointed in the squabbling, IMF_SAP loving NDC-NPP political monopoly in Ghana.
The NDC-NPP have sold off all Ghana's key economic sectors. What kind of leadership is that? They are now telling us they liberated Ghana? Are their leaders like: Prof. Oquaye and lawyer Otoo serious in the head?
The book libraries will uplift the currently backward mindset of a lot of people in Ghana.
Regards.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago
Very true friend, very true.
Very true friend, very true.
Repugnant. 10 years ago
Kwame Nkrumah and the proposed African common government
Aremu Johnson Olaosebikan
Department of History and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ado- Ekiti, P. M. B. 5363, ado- Ekiti,
Nigeria. Email: john ... read full comment
Kwame Nkrumah and the proposed African common government
Aremu Johnson Olaosebikan
Department of History and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ado- Ekiti, P. M. B. 5363, ado- Ekiti,
Nigeria. Email: johnsonaremu2006@yahoo.com.Tel:+23480
32477652.
Accepted 17 January, 2011
Between 1957 and 1966, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana fought vigorously for the creation of a Union of African States with a Common African Government. Hi
s optimism for the unity and cohesion of Africa as a lever for continental development was unparalleled.
However, his dream never became a reality due to stiff opposition from African leaders, most of whom feared the loss of their sovereignty, and the
West, due to selfish interest. This notwithstanding, this paper posits that Nkrumah’s mooted idea of
unity government is still the best option if Africa will be able to overcome her precarious socio-economic and political tragedies of intermittent wars and conflicts, poverty and exploitation of her natural resources by the West; even in the face of daunting challenges. The paper concludes that only a union government could enable Africa to compete favourably with other political and economic blocs in
this age of globalization and continental integration process going on in various other continents of the
world.
AYI 10 years ago
GOD BLESS YOU WRITER.
AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ORIGIN/DESCENT USE ALL/EVERY MEANS, /AT ALL COST/BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY RADICAL MEANS TO UNITE. AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, USE YOUR RESOURCES ... read full comment
GOD BLESS YOU WRITER.
AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ORIGIN/DESCENT USE ALL/EVERY MEANS, /AT ALL COST/BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY RADICAL MEANS TO UNITE. AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, USE YOUR RESOURCES TO FUND YOUR RADICAL MEANS OF UNITY.
PREZ KWAME NKRUMAH MADE A SPEECH DURING GHANA INDEPENDENCE DAY THAT “FROM NOW ON WE MUST CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE AND MINDS”. THAT IS, WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE RULED/GOVERN/DOMINATE BY ALIENS/FOREIGNERS.
GHANA DEVELOPMENT PATHS IS, GHANA MUST REPENT QUICKLY AND EMBRACE DR. KWAME NKRUMAH AND HIS VISIONS ABOUT GHANA / AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, TO HELP GHANA AND AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOP/MOVE TO THE TOP.
AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOPMENT PATHS IS, AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT MUST QUICKLY EMBRACE HON MARCUS GARVEY, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X AND THEIR VISIONS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, WITHOUT DELAY TO HELP AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOP/ MOVE TO THE TOP. IT IS TOO FRAGILE/DANGEROUS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT TO WASTE TIME IN EMBRACING HON MARCUS GARVEY, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X AND THEIR VISIONS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. EVERY AFRICAN/STUDENT/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT FROM THE LOWEST GRADE/KINGDERGARDEN TO THE MOST HIGHEST EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY/PAU AND EVERY PROFESSOR MUST/COMPULSORY STUDY HON MARCUS GARVEY’S, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH’S, MALCOM X’S TEACHINGS/IDEAS/VISIONS ABOUT AFRICA . GOD BLESSES AFRICA AMEN.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago
This is the play, Julius Caesar, all over again.
Some just can not live without hating great leaders.
Thanks Mark Kofi Anthony for re-focusing the crowd.
This is the play, Julius Caesar, all over again.
Some just can not live without hating great leaders.
Thanks Mark Kofi Anthony for re-focusing the crowd.
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Braveboy,
Brutus Akufo-Addo has told you Caesar Nkrumah was ambitious, ambition should be made of sterner stuff...
Regards.
Braveboy,
Brutus Akufo-Addo has told you Caesar Nkrumah was ambitious, ambition should be made of sterner stuff...
Regards.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago
The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.
The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.
THE MASK 10 years ago
Your all IDIOTS. He was a Communist and taking Ghana into Communism. He took the profits from the Coco farmers for himself. Demanded Ghana work for the Government. The CIA was asked to come in and help rid his ass by your AR ... read full comment
Your all IDIOTS. He was a Communist and taking Ghana into Communism. He took the profits from the Coco farmers for himself. Demanded Ghana work for the Government. The CIA was asked to come in and help rid his ass by your ARMY.
You don't even understand what it means about a Library. It is a building which tells the story of a leader. Holds all their information while being President. It isn't many libraries. You can't take things out of it to read. It's a memorial to them. Understand before you write ridiculous things that make no sense.
Bewise 10 years ago
I have always said that, Nkrumah's books need to be introduce into our educational system. If they had done so, we will have politicians who have developed love for Ghana and Africa and not politicians who are self serving an ... read full comment
I have always said that, Nkrumah's books need to be introduce into our educational system. If they had done so, we will have politicians who have developed love for Ghana and Africa and not politicians who are self serving and have their penis infront of them.
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Bewise,
You are very wise, because you are right. The current crop of leaders in Ghana would have read and understood the true character of imperialism enough to have been warned about the dangers of selling off all Ghana' ... read full comment
Bewise,
You are very wise, because you are right. The current crop of leaders in Ghana would have read and understood the true character of imperialism enough to have been warned about the dangers of selling off all Ghana's key export commodity resources and industries.
Our leaders have educational qualifications, but lack critical historical grounding and analytical compass!
Regards.
Repugnant. 10 years ago
Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialismKwame Nkrumah 1965
Introduction
THE neo-colonialism of today represents imperialism in its final and perhaps its most dangerous stage. In the past it was possible to convert a ... read full comment
Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialismKwame Nkrumah 1965
Introduction
THE neo-colonialism of today represents imperialism in its final and perhaps its most dangerous stage. In the past it was possible to convert a country upon which a neo-colonial regime had been imposed — Egypt in the nineteenth century is an example — into a colonial territory. Today this process is no longer feasible. Old-fashioned colonialism is by no means entirely abolished. It still constitutes an African problem, but it is everywhere on the retreat. Once a territory has become nominally independent it is no longer possible, as it was in the last century, to reverse the process. Existing colonies may linger on, but no new colonies will be created. In place of colonialism as the main instrument of imperialism we have today neo-colonialism.
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
The methods and form of this direction can take various shapes. For example, in an extreme case the troops of the imperial power may garrison the territory of the neo-colonial State and control the government of it. More often, however, neo-colonialist control is exercised through economic or monetary means. The neo-colonial State may be obliged to take the manufactured products of the imperialist power to the exclusion of competing products from elsewhere. Control over government policy in the neo-colonial State may be secured by payments towards the cost of running the State, by the provision of civil servants in positions where they can dictate policy, and by monetary control over foreign exchange through the imposition of a banking system controlled by the imperial power.
Where neo-colonialism exists the power exercising control is often the State which formerly ruled the territory in question, but this is not necessarily so. For example, in the case of South Vietnam the former imperial power was France, but neo-colonial control of the State has now gone to the United States. It is possible that neo-colonial control may be exercised by a consortium of financial interests which are not specifically identifiable with any particular State. The control of the Congo by great international financial concerns is a case in point.
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and the poor countries of the world.
The struggle against neo-colonialism is not aimed at excluding the capital of the developed world from operating in less developed countries. It is aimed at preventing the financial power of the developed countries being used in such a way as to impoverish the less developed.
Non-alignment, as practised by Ghana and many other countries, is based on co-operation with all States whether they be capitalist, socialist or have a mixed economy. Such a policy, therefore, involves foreign investment from capitalist countries, but it must be invested in accordance with a national plan drawn up by the government of the non-aligned State with its own interests in mind. The issue is not what return the foreign investor receives on his investments. He may, in fact, do better for himself if he invests in a non-aligned country than if he invests in a neo-colonial one. The question is one of power. A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace. The growth of nuclear weapons has made out of date the old-fashioned balance of power which rested upon the ultimate sanction of a major war. Certainty of mutual mass destruction effectively prevents either of the great power blocs from threatening the other with the possibility of a world-wide war, and military conflict has thus become confined to ‘limited wars’. For these neo-colonialism is the breeding ground.
Such wars can, of course, take place in countries which are not neo-colonialist controlled. Indeed their object may be to establish in a small but independent country a neo-colonialist regime. The evil of neo-colonialism is that it prevents the formation of those large units which would make impossible ‘limited war’. To give one example: if Africa was united, no major power bloc would attempt to subdue it by limited war because from the very nature of limited war, what can be achieved by it is itself limited. It is, only where small States exist that it is possible, by landing a few thousand marines or by financing a mercenary force, to secure a decisive result.
The restriction of military action of ‘limited wars’ is, however, no guarantee of world peace and is likely to be the factor which will ultimately involve the great power blocs in a world war, however much both are determined to avoid it.
Limited war, once embarked upon, achieves a momentum of its own. Of this, the war in South Vietnam is only one example. It escalates despite the desire of the great power blocs to keep it limited. While this particular war may be prevented from leading to a world conflict, the multiplication of similar limited wars can only have one end-world war and the terrible consequences of nuclear conflict.
Neo-colonialism is also the worst form of imperialism. For those who practise it, it means power without responsibility and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress. In the days of old-fashioned colonialism, the imperial power had at least to explain and justify at home the actions it was taking abroad. In the colony those who served the ruling imperial power could at least look to its protection against any violent move by their opponents. With neo-colonialism neither is the case.
Above all, neo-colonialism, like colonialism before it, postpones the facing of the social issues which will have to be faced by the fully developed sector of the world before the danger of world war can be eliminated or the problem of world poverty resolved.
Neo-colonialism, like colonialism, is an attempt to export the social conflicts of the capitalist countries. The temporary success of this policy can be seen in the ever widening gap between the richer and the poorer nations of the world. But the internal contradictions and conflicts of neo-colonialism make it certain that it cannot endure as a permanent world policy. How it should be brought to an end is a problem that should be studied, above all, by the developed nations of the world, because it is they who will feel the full impact of the ultimate failure. The longer it continues the more certain it is that its inevitable collapse will destroy the social system of which they have made it a foundation.
The reason for its development in the post-war period can be briefly summarised. The problem which faced the wealthy nations of the world at the end of the second world war was the impossibility of returning to the pre-war situation in which there was a great gulf between the few rich and the many poor. Irrespective of what particular political party was in power, the internal pressures in the rich countries of the world were such that no post-war capitalist country could survive unless it became a ‘Welfare State’. There might be differences in degree in the extent of the social benefits given to the industrial and agricultural workers, but what was everywhere impossible was a return to the mass unemployment and to the low level of living of the pre-war years.
From the end of the nineteenth century onwards, colonies had been regarded as a source of wealth which could be used to mitigate the class conflicts in the capitalist States and, as will be explained later, this policy had some success. But it failed in ‘its ultimate object because the pre-war capitalist States were so organised internally that the bulk of the profit made from colonial possessions found its way into the pockets of the capitalist class and not into those of the workers. Far from achieving the object intended, the working-class parties at times tended to identify their interests with those of the colonial peoples and the imperialist powers found themselves engaged upon a conflict on two fronts, at home with their own workers and abroad against the growing forces of colonial liberation.
The post-war period inaugurated a very different colonial policy. A deliberate attempt was made to divert colonial earnings from the wealthy class and use them instead generally to finance the ‘Welfare State’. As will be seen from the examples given later, this was the method consciously adopted even by those working-class leaders who had before the war regarded the colonial peoples as their natural allies against their capitalist enemies at home.
At first it was presumed that this object could be achieved by maintaining the pre-war colonial system. Experience soon proved that attempts to do so would be disastrous and would only provoke colonial wars, thus dissipating the anticipated gains from the continuance of the colonial regime. Britain, in particular, realised this at an early stage and the correctness of the British judgement at the time has subsequently been demonstrated by the defeat of French colonialism in the Far East and Algeria and the failure of the Dutch to retain any of their former colonial empire.
The system of neo-colonialism was therefore instituted and in the short run it has served the developed powers admirably. It is in the long run that its consequences are likely to be catastrophic for them.
Neo-colonialism is based upon the principle of breaking up former large united colonial territories into a number of small non-viable States which are incapable of independent development and must rely upon the former imperial power for defence and even internal security. Their economic and financial systems are linked, as in colonial days, with those of the former colonial ruler.
At first sight the scheme would appear to have many advantages for the developed countries of the world. All the profits of neo-colonialism can be secured if, in any given area, a reasonable proportion of the States have a neo-colonialist system. It is not necessary that they all should have one. Unless small States can combine they must be compelled to sell their primary products at prices dictated by the developed nations and buy their manufactured goods at the prices fixed by them. So long as neo-colonialism can prevent political and economic conditions for optimum development, the developing countries, whether they are under neo-colonialist control or not, will be unable to create a large enough market to support industrialisation. In the same way they will lack the financial strength to force the developed countries to accept their primary products at a fair price.
In the neo-colonialist territories, since the former colonial power has in theory relinquished political control, if the social conditions occasioned by neo-colonialism cause a revolt the local neo-colonialist government can be sacrificed and another equally subservient one substituted in its place. On the other hand, in any continent where neo-colonialism exists on a wide scale the same social pressures which can produce revolts in neo-colonial territories will also affect those States which have refused to accept the system and therefore neo-colonialist nations have a ready-made weapon with which they can threaten their opponents if they appear successfully to be challenging the system.
These advantages, which seem at first sight so obvious, are, however, on examination, illusory because they fail to take into consideration the facts of the world today.
The introduction of neo-colonialism increases the rivalry between the great powers which was provoked by the old-style colonialism. However little real power the government of a neo-colonialist State may possess, it must have, from the very fact of its nominal independence, a certain area of manoeuvre. It may not be able to exist without a neo-colonialist master but it may still have the ability to change masters.
The ideal neo-colonialist State would be one which was wholly subservient to neo-colonialist interests but the existence of the socialist nations makes it impossible to enforce the full rigour of the neo-colonialist system. The existence of an alternative system is itself a challenge to the neo-colonialist regime. Warnings about ‘the dangers of Communist subversion are likely to be two-edged since they bring to the notice of those living under a neo-colonialist system the possibility of a change of regime. In fact neo-colonialism is the victim of its own contradictions. In order to make it attractive to those upon whom it is practised it must be shown as capable of raising their living standards, but the economic object of neo-colonialism is to keep those standards depressed in the interest of the developed countries. It is only when this contradiction is understood that the failure of innumerable ‘aid’ programmes, many of them well intentioned, can be explained.
In the first place, the rulers of neo-colonial States derive their authority to govern, not from the will of the people, but from the support which they obtain from their neo-colonialist masters. They have therefore little interest in developing education, strengthening the bargaining power of their workers employed by expatriate firms, or indeed of taking any step which would challenge the colonial pattern of commerce and industry, which it is the object of neo-colonialism to preserve. ‘Aid’, therefore, to a neo-colonial State is merely a revolving credit, paid by the neo-colonial master, passing through the neo-colonial State and returning to the neo-colonial master in the form of increased profits.
Secondly, it is in the field of ‘aid’ that the rivalry of individual developed States first manifests itself. So long as neo-colonialism persists so long will spheres of interest persist, and this makes multilateral aid — which is in fact the only effective form of aid — impossible.
Once multilateral aid begins the neo-colonialist masters are f aced by the hostility of the vested interests in their own country. Their manufacturers naturally object to any attempt to raise the price of the raw materials which they obtain from the neo-colonialist territory in question, or to the establishment there of manufacturing industries which might compete directly or indirectly with their own exports to the territory. Even education is suspect as likely to produce a student movement and it is, of course, true that in many less developed countries the students have been in the vanguard of the fight against neo-colonialism.
In the end the situation arises that the only type of aid which the neo-colonialist masters consider as safe is ‘military aid’.
Once a neo-colonialist territory is brought to such a state of economic chaos and misery that revolt actually breaks out then, and only then, is there no limit to the generosity of the neo-colonial overlord, provided, of course, that the funds supplied are utilised exclusively for military purposes.
Military aid in fact marks the last stage of neo-colonialism and its effect is self-destructive. Sooner or later the weapons supplied pass into the hands of the opponents of the neo-colonialist regime and the war itself increases the social misery which originally provoked it.
Neo-colonialism is a mill-stone around the necks of the developed countries which practise it. Unless they can rid themselves of it, it will drown them. Previously the developed powers could escape from the contradictions of neo-colonialism by substituting for it direct colonialism. Such a solution is no longer possible and the reasons for it have been well explained by Mr Owen Lattimore, the United States Far Eastern expert and adviser to Chiang Kai-shek in the immediate post-war period. He wrote:
‘Asia, which was so easily and swiftly subjugated by conquerors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, displayed an amazing ability stubbornly to resist modern armies equipped with aeroplanes, tanks, motor vehicles and mobile artillery.
‘Formerly big territories were conquered in Asia with small forces. Income, first of all from plunder, then from direct taxes and lastly from trade, capital investments and long-term exploitation, covered with incredible speed the expenditure for military operations. This arithmetic represented a great temptation to strong countries. Now they have run up against another arithmetic, and it discourages them.’
The same arithmetic is likely to apply throughout the less developed world.
This book is therefore an attempt to examine neo-colonialism not only in its African context and its relation to African unity, but in world perspective. Neo-colonialism is by no means exclusively an African question. Long before it was practised on any large scale in Africa it was an established system in other parts of the world. Nowhere has it proved successful, either in raising living standards or in ultimately benefiting countries which have indulged in it.
Marx predicted that the growing gap between the wealth of the possessing classes and the workers it employs would ultimately produce a conflict fatal to capitalism in each individual capitalist State.
This conflict between the rich and the poor has now been transferred on to the international scene, but for proof of what is acknowledged to be happening it is no longer necessary to consult the classical Marxist writers. The situation is set out with the utmost clarity in the leading organs of capitalist opinion. Take for example the following extracts from The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper which perhaps best reflects United States capitalist thinking.
In its issue of 12 May 1965, under the headline of ‘Poor Nations’ Plight’, the paper first analyses ‘which countries are considered industrial and which backward’. There is, it explains, ‘no rigid method of classification’. Nevertheless, it points out:
‘A generally used breakdown, however, has recently been maintained by the International Monetary Fund because, in the words of an IMF official, “the economic demarcation in the world is getting increasingly apparent.”’ The break-down, the official says, “is based on simple common sense.”’
In the IMF’s view, the industrial countries are the United States, the United Kingdom, most West European nations, Canada and Japan. A special category called “other developed areas” includes such other European lands as Finland, Greece and Ireland, plus Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The IMF’s “less developed” category embraces all of Latin America and nearly all of the Middle East, non-Communist Asia and Africa.’
In other words the ‘backward’ countries are those situated in the neo-colonial areas.
After quoting figures to support its argument, The Wall Street Journal comments on this situation:
‘The industrial nations have added nearly $2 billion to their reserves, which now approximate $52 billion. At the same time, the reserves of the less-developed group not only have stopped rising, but have declined some $200 million. To analysts such as Britain’s Miss Ward, the significance of such statistics is clear: the economic gap is rapidly widening “between a white, complacent, highly bourgeois, very wealthy, very small North Atlantic elite and everybody else, and this is not a very comfortable heritage to leave to one’s children.”
“Everybody else” includes approximately two-thirds of the population of the earth, spread through about 100 nations.’
This is no new problem. In the opening paragraph of his book, The War on World Poverty, written in 1953, the present British Labour leader, Mr Harold Wilson, summarised the major problem of the world as he then saw it:
‘For the vast majority of mankind the most urgent problem is not war, or Communism, or the cost of living, or taxation. It is hunger. Over 1,500,000,000 people, some-thing like two-thirds of the world’s population, are living in conditions of acute hunger, defined in terms of identifiable nutritional disease. This hunger is at the same time the effect and the cause of the poverty, squalor and misery in which they live.’
Its consequences are likewise understood. The correspondent of The Wall Street Journal previously quoted, underlines them:
‘... many diplomats and economists view the implications as overwhelmingly — and dangerously — political. Unless the present decline can be reversed, these analysts fear, the United States and other wealthy industrial powers of the West face the distinct possibility, in the words of British economist Barbara Ward, “of a sort of international class war”.’
What is lacking are any positive proposals for dealing with the situation. All that The Wall Street Journal’s correspondent can do is to point out that the traditional methods recommended for curing the evils are only likely to make the situation worse.
It has been argued that the developed nations should effectively assist the poorer parts of the world, and that the whole world should be turned into a Welfare State. However, there seems little prospect that anything of this sort could be achieved. The so-called ‘aid’ programmes to help backward economies represent, according to a rough U.N. estimate, only one half of one per cent of the total income of industrial countries. But when it comes to the prospect of increasing such aid the mood is one of pessimism:
‘A large school of thought holds that expanded share-the-wealth schemes are idealistic and impractical. This school contends climate, undeveloped human skills, lack of natural resources and other factors — not just lack of money — retard economic progress in many of these lands, and that the countries lack personnel with the training or will to use vastly expanded aid effectively. Share-the-wealth schemes, according to this view, would be like pouring money down a bottomless well, weakening the donor nations without effectively curing the ills of the recipients.’
The absurdity of this argument is demonstrated by the fact that every one of the reasons quoted to prove why the less developed parts of the world cannot be developed applied equally strongly to the present developed countries in the period prior to their development. The argument is only true in this sense. The less developed world will not become developed through the goodwill or generosity of the developed powers. It can only become developed through a struggle against the external forces which have a vested interest in keeping it undeveloped.
Of these forces, neo-colonialism is, at this stage of history, the principal.
I propose to analyse neo-colonialism, first, by examining the state of the African continent and showing how neo-colonialism at the moment keeps it artificially poor. Next, I propose to show how in practice African Unity, which in itself can only be established by the defeat of neo-colonialism, could immensely raise African living standards. From this beginning, I propose to examine neo-colonialism generally, first historically and then by a consideration of the great international monopolies whose continued stranglehold on the neo-colonial sectors of the world ensures the continuation of the system.
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focus 10 years ago
First things first! First create good teacher training colleges to produce good teachers who can educate the kids or the people. Use the money where it is needed first and all other things shall be appreciated.
First things first! First create good teacher training colleges to produce good teachers who can educate the kids or the people. Use the money where it is needed first and all other things shall be appreciated.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago
focus... you can also teach in your small corner and don't just leave things to good colleges, even great countries seek for good education and all the little comments here and the purpose of the writer is to give practical i ... read full comment
focus... you can also teach in your small corner and don't just leave things to good colleges, even great countries seek for good education and all the little comments here and the purpose of the writer is to give practical improvement of out educational systems and not just the big white buildings we build.
Self education is the worst problem in Ghana. We do not study on in life after school.
VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR. 10 years ago
Yes Nkrumah has done his part, what the rest of us want to carry on is our problem. Either we take lessons from him or go back to those who like to blow sweet air in our faces and take our resources for free and cheap to enri ... read full comment
Yes Nkrumah has done his part, what the rest of us want to carry on is our problem. Either we take lessons from him or go back to those who like to blow sweet air in our faces and take our resources for free and cheap to enrich themselves and talk crp to us when they meet us.
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR,
This is precisely the point of this discourse - we the people must define our own future.
Our current IMF-SAP loving, neocolonial NDC-NPP leaders have conspired with white exploiters to sell off ... read full comment
VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR,
This is precisely the point of this discourse - we the people must define our own future.
Our current IMF-SAP loving, neocolonial NDC-NPP leaders have conspired with white exploiters to sell off all our key export commodities and industries Dr. Nkrumah left us (gold, diamond, oil, cocoa, Ghana Telecom, GIHOC Industries, Black Star Line, Ghana Airways, State Farms, etc).
It is time to start thinking for ourselves by reading.
Regards.
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Braveboy,
I had to unlearn most of what I learnt from Ghana's neocolonial educational system.
I read, read, and read again anything I could lay my hands on. I started reading the conservative, Reader's Digest and progr ... read full comment
Braveboy,
I had to unlearn most of what I learnt from Ghana's neocolonial educational system.
I read, read, and read again anything I could lay my hands on. I started reading the conservative, Reader's Digest and progressed to Dr. Nkrumah's books, African Writer's Series, Malcolm X,George Jackson, novels, academic books on sociology, history, cultural studies, economics and Marxist politics.
Ghana needs a free on-line, Open University to cater for matured people who did not have the opportunity to school when young. I will write about this one day.
Regards
Regards
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago
Precisely, we really need that and fast. We owe it to future generations to study, work and leave to them a great unadulterated history and future.
Precisely, we really need that and fast. We owe it to future generations to study, work and leave to them a great unadulterated history and future.
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Focus,
The positive cultural provisions of Dr. Nkrumah libraries will not take much from the need to build more teacher training institute, or even resourcing the ones we already have. The two can go hand-in-hand.
Secon ... read full comment
Focus,
The positive cultural provisions of Dr. Nkrumah libraries will not take much from the need to build more teacher training institute, or even resourcing the ones we already have. The two can go hand-in-hand.
Second, children can be read to and encouraged to read while in the libraries. This must be part of a supplementary revision programme to school learning.
Regards.
Sam 10 years ago
1. Marcus Garvey
2. Kwame Nkrumah
3. Malcolm X
4. William Du Bois
5. Sekou Toure
6. Bob Marley
7. Peter Tosh
8. Mu'ammar Qathafi
9. Samora Macheal
10. Thomas Sankara
11. Robert Mugabe
1. Marcus Garvey
2. Kwame Nkrumah
3. Malcolm X
4. William Du Bois
5. Sekou Toure
6. Bob Marley
7. Peter Tosh
8. Mu'ammar Qathafi
9. Samora Macheal
10. Thomas Sankara
11. Robert Mugabe
Jury 10 years ago
To the imperialist western powers, all these names you've listed are labelled: RADICALS, DICTATORS, REVOLUTIONISTS & other insultive negative names, cos they never licked the ASS of the CIA.
One of the simple reasons ... read full comment
To the imperialist western powers, all these names you've listed are labelled: RADICALS, DICTATORS, REVOLUTIONISTS & other insultive negative names, cos they never licked the ASS of the CIA.
One of the simple reasons is that, these men were spearheading the eye-opening of the average black man's identity universally.
The list could even be longer than this your top eleven above & thanks for your contribution; bro.Sam
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Jury,
The imperialist is only concerned with exploiting Ghana's/Africa's resources as quickly as possible. To do so, it must vilify our most intelligent, patriotic leaders, and encourage the stupid ones who love big 4x4 ca ... read full comment
Jury,
The imperialist is only concerned with exploiting Ghana's/Africa's resources as quickly as possible. To do so, it must vilify our most intelligent, patriotic leaders, and encourage the stupid ones who love big 4x4 cars, big mansions and big goat meat with big fufu (see their pot bellies!).
It is up to us the people to tell them that we are the voters - not them. We are the majority. They can go to court and talk big big English till kingdom come, it will not change this fact.
Forward ever Ghana/Africa!
SULLEY 10 years ago
Kofi,
I don't who you are addressing your proposal to. But surely you should know better than expect the NDC government to accomplish this! How can you expect the same government that supports the overthrow of Nkrumah and ... read full comment
Kofi,
I don't who you are addressing your proposal to. But surely you should know better than expect the NDC government to accomplish this! How can you expect the same government that supports the overthrow of Nkrumah and maintains the honour bestowed on the arch-traitor and leading imperialist mercenary, Kotoka, in the form of the name given the only international airport in Ghana to open Nkrumah libraries throughout Ghana? Really?
There are actually a few things you can do in the UK towards the realization of the noble idea you've put forward. First, there has to be some negotiations with Panaf Books based in the UK which has the copyright. I believe Dame June Milner, Nkrumah's secretary and literary executrix, who also lives in the UK, is most likely in charge of Panaf Books. Currently, Nkrumah's books are too expensive and, to the best of my knowledge, can only be obtained from Amazon and a few vintage book outlets. Panaf no longer publishes or sells Nkrumah's books.
Perhaps you can contact Dame June Milner with your idea and together with CPP-UK and CPP Ghana, once the copyright has been transferred, a local printer can be found that can produce the books in sufficient quantities to be sold to academic institutions and the general public. Also, as a reminder, there is an Nkrumah Foundation (on paper anyway!) headed by Professor Akosa. Have you thought of contacting him to work together on this project?
By the way, the comparison you make between Nkrumah and Mugabe is false, simplistic and hurtful to the Nkrumahist cause. I beg to disagree with you.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago
Sulley... forgive Kofi. Yes! Mugabe is a prodigal son we must protect, but Nkrumah is a Tower that rouse and still stands tall.
I like your great contribution as well and I will try and look for that Lady if possible.
Sulley... forgive Kofi. Yes! Mugabe is a prodigal son we must protect, but Nkrumah is a Tower that rouse and still stands tall.
I like your great contribution as well and I will try and look for that Lady if possible.
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Brother Sulley,
Thank you very much for your contribution. Of course I know the NDC-NPP are a bunch of court jesters. I have given good reason to say this most of the time in my articles.
I knew June when I worked as As ... read full comment
Brother Sulley,
Thank you very much for your contribution. Of course I know the NDC-NPP are a bunch of court jesters. I have given good reason to say this most of the time in my articles.
I knew June when I worked as Assistant Editor for Third World Review. We chatted a lot in three Third World Book Fairs. However, I have lost track of her for over 26 years! I suggest since you know so much about her, you contact her and coordinate with Prof. Korsah and the CPP's Nkrumah Foundation. This will lift the weight of publishing off my shoulders, as I am currently focused on researching, writing and editing articles to stimulate public discourse on social, cultural, economic and political issues.
Lastly, you misread the context of what I said about Mugabe: 'Jamaica-born Garvey was the leader of US-based, the Universal Negro Improvement Society (UNIA). The UNIA commanded over one million paid memberships. It was self-reliantly advocated buying a fleet of ‘Black Star Line Ships’ which will ship back to Africa all Africans in the American Diaspora who wished to do so. His slogan was: “Africa for Africans”. Pres. Robert Mugabe is just like him.'
It is clear from the text I was referring to the 'Africa for Africans' motto of Marcus Garvey, which is similar to the Mugabe's current indegenisation programmes.
nii 10 years ago
THANK U, HAVE READ MOST OF THE BOOKS MENTIONED ABOVE. I BOUGHT THEM IN VANCOUVER, b.c. ON MY WAY TO JAPAN IN 1975. HAD TO STAY IN VANCOUVER FOR 3 DAYS BECAUSE OF AN AIR STRIKE, BUT IT WAS ALL WORTH IT. I STILL HAVE ALL THOSE ... read full comment
THANK U, HAVE READ MOST OF THE BOOKS MENTIONED ABOVE. I BOUGHT THEM IN VANCOUVER, b.c. ON MY WAY TO JAPAN IN 1975. HAD TO STAY IN VANCOUVER FOR 3 DAYS BECAUSE OF AN AIR STRIKE, BUT IT WAS ALL WORTH IT. I STILL HAVE ALL THOSE BOOKS. THANK U.
Ayisi 10 years ago
Kofi thanks for the insight. I saw a good number of Nkrumah's books on sale at a bookshop in Gambia. They were expensive though. It seems transferring the copyrights from Panaf to a publisher who can get the books out at a ... read full comment
Kofi thanks for the insight. I saw a good number of Nkrumah's books on sale at a bookshop in Gambia. They were expensive though. It seems transferring the copyrights from Panaf to a publisher who can get the books out at a price that will meet the pockets of ordinary Africans will do the trick.
Repugnant. 10 years ago
Luckily my friend most of his books are in the open book library on line, you can read the in Pdf format on line. If you like to read Axioms of Dr Nkrumah for example, in google search, just type the title and add Pdf. The en ... read full comment
Luckily my friend most of his books are in the open book library on line, you can read the in Pdf format on line. If you like to read Axioms of Dr Nkrumah for example, in google search, just type the title and add Pdf. The entire book will be at your disposal to read. Thanks Nkrumah never dies.
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago
WHICH IS UR MOST FAV BOOK N WHY?
WHICH IS UR MOST FAV BOOK N WHY?
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL!,
My favorite book is Revolutionary path. Because it is a compendium of most of his earlier books.
But overall, I also I like CHALLENGE OF THE CONGO. It is Dr. Nkrumah's expose of western ... read full comment
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL!,
My favorite book is Revolutionary path. Because it is a compendium of most of his earlier books.
But overall, I also I like CHALLENGE OF THE CONGO. It is Dr. Nkrumah's expose of western imperialism at close quarters (he was very much engaged with that historical process).
Regards.
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago
TAKE HIS REMAINS TO NKROFUL, PLS...N DEVELOP THE PLACE
TAKE HIS REMAINS TO NKROFUL, PLS...N DEVELOP THE PLACE
Isaac Kusi, Bronx, NY. 10 years ago
visit www.panafbooks.com
visit www.panafbooks.com
Joni 10 years ago
1. You wrote:
"During his leadership Dr. Nkrumah wrote more books than any living African leader. This is the reason for still lingering jealousies by his political detractors:"
Then you go on to mention all the books tha ... read full comment
1. You wrote:
"During his leadership Dr. Nkrumah wrote more books than any living African leader. This is the reason for still lingering jealousies by his political detractors:"
Then you go on to mention all the books that Nkrumah wrote INCLUDING the ones he wrote when he was no longer a leader of Ghana. Normally, you would mention the books someone writes by arranging them according to the years the books were written so that readers could know the manner in which his ideas developed and the changes he may have made in his own thinking.
It is simplistic to argue that some of his detractors were jealous because he had written books. Many of the African leaders who were against Nkrumah and even some of his internal detractors did so on genuinely ideological grounds not for the mere fact that he had written books. Only petty minds will do that. Julius Nyerere admired Nkrumah a lot but he did not agree with everything Nkrumah did! Nkrumah also supported some of the opposition elements in already independent African states!
2. You wrote: "After these, he helped to liberate the rest of the African world - on the continent, Caribbean Islands and all around the world - from direct imperialist rule to free nation states."
That is a sweeping statement. Nkrumah actively helped the liberation struggle in Africa. But he had to choose sides among the liberation fighters. Some of these were very controversial. At the time he died, some of these countries were not yet liberated. This goes counter to your quoted statement.
3. Kofi of Africa, it is extremely petty of you to continue calling Okoampa-Ahoofe Pee Aach Dee. That is downright childish. You are a university lecturer and must show more maturity than that.
Ok, it's good that you call for Nkrumah's books to be read. But the fact is that, Nkrumah's books are really not scarce in Ghana. Any "good" library in Ghana should stock his books. If they are not there then it means the library is not good, not because they don't want to stock his books. The problem in Ghana is that we don't have well-stocked libraries not that we have libraries that don't stock Nkrumah's books. Our libraries need to be upgraded so that it will afford the citizens more information on ALL things (or a wide variety of them) not just Nkrumah's books.
Now, as an academic, I will expect you to take a MORE CRITICAL approach to Nkrumah scholarship than just saying how valuable Nkrumah's ideas are to us and how relevant they still are. You can argue for Nkrumah but you must still be critical not just praise everything he did and stood for and just condemn everybody who ever stood against him. You must weigh the evidence critically and show how it favours Nkrumah.
Yes, I have read everything Nkrumah ever wrote - probably before you were born. Some of it I read when I was too young to understand them. For instance I read Consciecism in early secondary school when I could not fully grasp all the philosophical information. Even not all adults understand it today. Perhaps I need to re-read it. But I have also read things the opposition to him have written. I can judge things now myself plus my actually starting school before Nkrumah was overthrown and seeing how Ghana was then...
GHANAMAN 10 years ago
Do we care about your lies, no.
I can easily destroy all the points you've raised, but I refuse to descend into the gutter with you.
The question is who started it all and what article have you written to show that ba ... read full comment
Do we care about your lies, no.
I can easily destroy all the points you've raised, but I refuse to descend into the gutter with you.
The question is who started it all and what article have you written to show that balance.
We can smell who you are from a thousand miles. Liar.
You are an old gay man, so wise up at least a little.
You think we are fools, why did the many Ghanaians twice choose Nkrumah over your so called ancestors. Tell us who Paul Danquah is then. I wait for the answer?
MINOR CASE 10 years ago
What is wrong with Joni's comment . What is gutter about his comment.If indeed you are as smart as you think, go ahead dispute his facts . It will do you good as you grow if you understand that there are two sides to the coin ... read full comment
What is wrong with Joni's comment . What is gutter about his comment.If indeed you are as smart as you think, go ahead dispute his facts . It will do you good as you grow if you understand that there are two sides to the coin .
GHANAMAN 10 years ago
The other side had bomb throwers written on it.
The man wrote books and good ones with great ideas and predictions, at least respect him for that.
What do you take us for. Whether he wrote it in power or not is irreve ... read full comment
The other side had bomb throwers written on it.
The man wrote books and good ones with great ideas and predictions, at least respect him for that.
What do you take us for. Whether he wrote it in power or not is irreverent.
The most important time is, even some Europeans learn and make the most out of his books and ideas while your NPP so called gurus seat there to discredit him.
You did not answer my question. Who is Paul Danquah
GHANAMAN 10 years ago
correction.. the most important thing is,
...so called gurus sit.
correction.. the most important thing is,
...so called gurus sit.
Joni 10 years ago
MINOR CASE, GHANAMAN clearly doesn't understand the issues. He has taken it for granted that I am anti-Nkrumah and an NPP. But nothing I have argued shows that. I didn't say anything against Nkrumah. I never said Nkrumah's bo ... read full comment
MINOR CASE, GHANAMAN clearly doesn't understand the issues. He has taken it for granted that I am anti-Nkrumah and an NPP. But nothing I have argued shows that. I didn't say anything against Nkrumah. I never said Nkrumah's books were not good (only that Consciencism is difficult to understand and if Ghanaman read it, he would agree).
Personally, I owe my education in Ghana to Nkrumah's policies which made that possible. If I am arguing the case for Nkrumah, I will argue it on factual and academic grounds, not on sentimental grounds as the present writer seems to be doing. To argue that people who didn't agree with Nkrumah envy him because he wrote books is plainly childish!!! There is a better case to make for Nkrumah than that!
As you rightly said, we should grow up and understand that there are two sides to the coin EVEN IF WE AGREE ONLY WITH ONE SIDE!!!
GHANAMAN 10 years ago
There're several things Nkrumah did and it will take long essays to write and put them out. I told you to write your own if you have any, but the writer to my eyes did a right job educating the public on what Nkrumah wrote.
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There're several things Nkrumah did and it will take long essays to write and put them out. I told you to write your own if you have any, but the writer to my eyes did a right job educating the public on what Nkrumah wrote.
Yes, he sounds angry, but not without cause and I understand him perfectly.
Like I said, if you claim to have a better piece on Nkrumah, then put it out there and we will assess it as well and give you credit for that.
Joni 10 years ago
I have argued that if I am making the case for Nkrumah, I will do so on factual grounds only not on sentimental ones. I have not chosen to write an article on Nkrumah. That is my choice. I will not write an article on Nkrumah ... read full comment
I have argued that if I am making the case for Nkrumah, I will do so on factual grounds only not on sentimental ones. I have not chosen to write an article on Nkrumah. That is my choice. I will not write an article on Nkrumah only because you have challenged me to to do so. The fact that I will not write an article on Nkrumah does not mean that if someone else does so, I should not be critical of it. You do not have to write an article on a topic before you can be critical of articles on that topic. That is not the way it works.
GHANAMAN 10 years ago
Let's strike a deal here, you critique and I praise. I hope that is fine with you.
At least, we have the heart to allow criticisms. All I have been saying is give credit where credit is due.
Kofi will not be privy to al ... read full comment
Let's strike a deal here, you critique and I praise. I hope that is fine with you.
At least, we have the heart to allow criticisms. All I have been saying is give credit where credit is due.
Kofi will not be privy to all the facts but he did a good work than the many junk we read daily on this site. The fact you critique is testament to this.
Joni 10 years ago
Anybody can choose to praise or criticize an article if they want to. The most important thing is that whether you praise or criticize it must be on factual grounds. Not criticise just for its sake or so for praise.
If you ... read full comment
Anybody can choose to praise or criticize an article if they want to. The most important thing is that whether you praise or criticize it must be on factual grounds. Not criticise just for its sake or so for praise.
If you read my first entry, I provided reasons for each of my points. I even agreed on one point and provided alternative explanations for others. I never insulted the writer. I said some of his argumentation was childish but that is not an insult. Kofi of Africa has told us that he is a lecturer in Media Studies or so... That means a high standard of argumentation is expected of him. That is why I stressed the academic side of things.
Thank you
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Ghanaman,
I think you've got me confused with someone else. I am an ardent Nkrumahist, not a Danquahist.
Regards.
Ghanaman,
I think you've got me confused with someone else. I am an ardent Nkrumahist, not a Danquahist.
Regards.
GHANAMAN 10 years ago
Kofi...) I would not say such a thing against you. I was not referring to you.
Kofi...) I would not say such a thing against you. I was not referring to you.
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Ghanaman,
Thank you. It was a genuine mistake.
Ghanaman,
Thank you. It was a genuine mistake.
KWARNING,NJ 10 years ago
HE WROTE A MILLION BOOKS YET HE WAS A DICTATOR.
HE WROTE A MILLION BOOKS YET HE WAS A DICTATOR.
target 10 years ago
brainwashed 'matemeho' ni
Go lick the ass of the cia for a few bucks of $dollars to kill your ashawo mother & your pimp father
brainwashed 'matemeho' ni
Go lick the ass of the cia for a few bucks of $dollars to kill your ashawo mother & your pimp father
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Target,
Behave yourself. I didn't write this article for language like this. Be polite to your NPP opponents in debate - and vise versa. Haba!
Target,
Behave yourself. I didn't write this article for language like this. Be polite to your NPP opponents in debate - and vise versa. Haba!
Atadwe 10 years ago
What was the dream of Kwame Nkrumah? To build library for Ghanaians or to unite Africa and rule over a larger nation. How was Ghanaian money was spent outside the country?
What was the dream of Kwame Nkrumah? To build library for Ghanaians or to unite Africa and rule over a larger nation. How was Ghanaian money was spent outside the country?
CAPONE 10 years ago
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS TO SEND TRAINED TEACHERS TO THE VILLAGES TO TEACH AND NOT A LIBRARY WHERE PEOPLE CANT READ.IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS TO SEND TRAINED TEACHERS TO THE VILLAGES TO TEACH AND NOT A LIBRARY WHERE PEOPLE CANT READ.IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME.
Whatever 10 years ago
Ghana need to institutionalize Kwame Nkrumah's mind and his thinking because that will hugely boost our development drive
Ghana need to institutionalize Kwame Nkrumah's mind and his thinking because that will hugely boost our development drive
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Whatever,
Correct - 10/10 points!
Whatever,
Correct - 10/10 points!
stanley 10 years ago
THE LATE KWAME NKRUMARK
THE LATE KWAME NKRUMARK
Kwadwo 10 years ago
Kofi of Africa, I trust you were a member of the young pioneers and you grew up reciting the following:
Nkrumah does no wrong;and
Nkrumah never dies.
Please be advised that Nkrumah did good, but he had a lot of faults th ... read full comment
Kofi of Africa, I trust you were a member of the young pioneers and you grew up reciting the following:
Nkrumah does no wrong;and
Nkrumah never dies.
Please be advised that Nkrumah did good, but he had a lot of faults that was why he was overthrown. The country has moved on from his socialist dictatorial policies. Nkrumah is dead after all, Kofi.
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago
Kwadjo,
No, I was a Boys Scout. My father fought in the Second European War - as part of the West African Frontiers with Sgt. Adjetey - to enable Ghana get its Independence. So he prefered the more soldier-like Boys Scout ... read full comment
Kwadjo,
No, I was a Boys Scout. My father fought in the Second European War - as part of the West African Frontiers with Sgt. Adjetey - to enable Ghana get its Independence. So he prefered the more soldier-like Boys Scouts.
But he was a card bearing CPP member. Despite the UP/Domo/Mate meho/PP/NLM/NPP repressions of everything CPP after the 1966 coup, he kept his CPP card. (I discovered his green CPP card after his death!)
The Young Pioneers were educated to love Ghana and its excellent leader, Dr. Nkrumah, who created every decent project or institution were are currently enjoying in Ghana: educational institutions (which educated you and me) polyclinics and hospitals, the many public-owned corporations that are now the only economic facilities worth 'divesting' by the sheepish, IMF-SAP loving, neocolonial NDC-NPP (gold mines, oil, cocoa, State Farms, GIHOC state industries, Ghana Telecom, Ghana Airways, Black Star Line Shipping Co, Nsawam Canary, etc).
Nkrumah was not ousted by the masses of the Ghanaians people, he was ousted by a handful of corrupt, unpatriotic, selfish, Europe-worshiping soldiers who were externally manipulated by the CIA who wanted Nkrumah exiled so they can exploit our massive resources.
They did the same thing to Gadaffi and have now destroyed Libya for its oil. They also destroyed Sierra Leone for its gold, diamonds; and are now trying to destroy Congo and vilify to oust Mugabe as well.
No, Nkrumah is not dead - far from it. He was voted by thousands as Africa's most valuable man of the millenium - the right-wing JB Dankwah, Kofi Busia, Dumbo of the NPP 'tradition' were not even on the list which included Nelson Mandela.
The fact we are having this debate demonstrates, 'Nkrumah never dies, never dies, never dies, Nkrumah never dies, he lives forever more!'
Great piece. In fact, they have ignited the whole reason why we have to revisit history and do a proper teaching and documentation. I have sadly read only one of his autobiographies and I am grateful for you list of his books ...
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Braveboy,
As usual, thank you for the encouragement. It is very hard researching, writing and editing articles throughout the night. I do so altruistically, because I am very disappointed in the squabbling, IMF_SAP loving ...
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Very true friend, very true.
Kwame Nkrumah and the proposed African common government
Aremu Johnson Olaosebikan
Department of History and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ado- Ekiti, P. M. B. 5363, ado- Ekiti,
Nigeria. Email: john ...
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GOD BLESS YOU WRITER.
AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ORIGIN/DESCENT USE ALL/EVERY MEANS, /AT ALL COST/BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY RADICAL MEANS TO UNITE. AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, USE YOUR RESOURCES ...
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This is the play, Julius Caesar, all over again.
Some just can not live without hating great leaders.
Thanks Mark Kofi Anthony for re-focusing the crowd.
Braveboy,
Brutus Akufo-Addo has told you Caesar Nkrumah was ambitious, ambition should be made of sterner stuff...
Regards.
The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.
Your all IDIOTS. He was a Communist and taking Ghana into Communism. He took the profits from the Coco farmers for himself. Demanded Ghana work for the Government. The CIA was asked to come in and help rid his ass by your AR ...
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I have always said that, Nkrumah's books need to be introduce into our educational system. If they had done so, we will have politicians who have developed love for Ghana and Africa and not politicians who are self serving an ...
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Bewise,
You are very wise, because you are right. The current crop of leaders in Ghana would have read and understood the true character of imperialism enough to have been warned about the dangers of selling off all Ghana' ...
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Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialismKwame Nkrumah 1965
Introduction
THE neo-colonialism of today represents imperialism in its final and perhaps its most dangerous stage. In the past it was possible to convert a ...
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First things first! First create good teacher training colleges to produce good teachers who can educate the kids or the people. Use the money where it is needed first and all other things shall be appreciated.
focus... you can also teach in your small corner and don't just leave things to good colleges, even great countries seek for good education and all the little comments here and the purpose of the writer is to give practical i ...
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Yes Nkrumah has done his part, what the rest of us want to carry on is our problem. Either we take lessons from him or go back to those who like to blow sweet air in our faces and take our resources for free and cheap to enri ...
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VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR,
This is precisely the point of this discourse - we the people must define our own future.
Our current IMF-SAP loving, neocolonial NDC-NPP leaders have conspired with white exploiters to sell off ...
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Braveboy,
I had to unlearn most of what I learnt from Ghana's neocolonial educational system.
I read, read, and read again anything I could lay my hands on. I started reading the conservative, Reader's Digest and progr ...
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Precisely, we really need that and fast. We owe it to future generations to study, work and leave to them a great unadulterated history and future.
Focus,
The positive cultural provisions of Dr. Nkrumah libraries will not take much from the need to build more teacher training institute, or even resourcing the ones we already have. The two can go hand-in-hand.
Secon ...
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1. Marcus Garvey
2. Kwame Nkrumah
3. Malcolm X
4. William Du Bois
5. Sekou Toure
6. Bob Marley
7. Peter Tosh
8. Mu'ammar Qathafi
9. Samora Macheal
10. Thomas Sankara
11. Robert Mugabe
To the imperialist western powers, all these names you've listed are labelled: RADICALS, DICTATORS, REVOLUTIONISTS & other insultive negative names, cos they never licked the ASS of the CIA.
One of the simple reasons ...
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Jury,
The imperialist is only concerned with exploiting Ghana's/Africa's resources as quickly as possible. To do so, it must vilify our most intelligent, patriotic leaders, and encourage the stupid ones who love big 4x4 ca ...
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Kofi,
I don't who you are addressing your proposal to. But surely you should know better than expect the NDC government to accomplish this! How can you expect the same government that supports the overthrow of Nkrumah and ...
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Sulley... forgive Kofi. Yes! Mugabe is a prodigal son we must protect, but Nkrumah is a Tower that rouse and still stands tall.
I like your great contribution as well and I will try and look for that Lady if possible.
Brother Sulley,
Thank you very much for your contribution. Of course I know the NDC-NPP are a bunch of court jesters. I have given good reason to say this most of the time in my articles.
I knew June when I worked as As ...
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THANK U, HAVE READ MOST OF THE BOOKS MENTIONED ABOVE. I BOUGHT THEM IN VANCOUVER, b.c. ON MY WAY TO JAPAN IN 1975. HAD TO STAY IN VANCOUVER FOR 3 DAYS BECAUSE OF AN AIR STRIKE, BUT IT WAS ALL WORTH IT. I STILL HAVE ALL THOSE ...
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Kofi thanks for the insight. I saw a good number of Nkrumah's books on sale at a bookshop in Gambia. They were expensive though. It seems transferring the copyrights from Panaf to a publisher who can get the books out at a ...
read full comment
Luckily my friend most of his books are in the open book library on line, you can read the in Pdf format on line. If you like to read Axioms of Dr Nkrumah for example, in google search, just type the title and add Pdf. The en ...
read full comment
WHICH IS UR MOST FAV BOOK N WHY?
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL!,
My favorite book is Revolutionary path. Because it is a compendium of most of his earlier books.
But overall, I also I like CHALLENGE OF THE CONGO. It is Dr. Nkrumah's expose of western ...
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TAKE HIS REMAINS TO NKROFUL, PLS...N DEVELOP THE PLACE
visit www.panafbooks.com
1. You wrote:
"During his leadership Dr. Nkrumah wrote more books than any living African leader. This is the reason for still lingering jealousies by his political detractors:"
Then you go on to mention all the books tha ...
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Do we care about your lies, no.
I can easily destroy all the points you've raised, but I refuse to descend into the gutter with you.
The question is who started it all and what article have you written to show that ba ...
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What is wrong with Joni's comment . What is gutter about his comment.If indeed you are as smart as you think, go ahead dispute his facts . It will do you good as you grow if you understand that there are two sides to the coin ...
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The other side had bomb throwers written on it.
The man wrote books and good ones with great ideas and predictions, at least respect him for that.
What do you take us for. Whether he wrote it in power or not is irreve ...
read full comment
correction.. the most important thing is,
...so called gurus sit.
MINOR CASE, GHANAMAN clearly doesn't understand the issues. He has taken it for granted that I am anti-Nkrumah and an NPP. But nothing I have argued shows that. I didn't say anything against Nkrumah. I never said Nkrumah's bo ...
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There're several things Nkrumah did and it will take long essays to write and put them out. I told you to write your own if you have any, but the writer to my eyes did a right job educating the public on what Nkrumah wrote.
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I have argued that if I am making the case for Nkrumah, I will do so on factual grounds only not on sentimental ones. I have not chosen to write an article on Nkrumah. That is my choice. I will not write an article on Nkrumah ...
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Let's strike a deal here, you critique and I praise. I hope that is fine with you.
At least, we have the heart to allow criticisms. All I have been saying is give credit where credit is due.
Kofi will not be privy to al ...
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Anybody can choose to praise or criticize an article if they want to. The most important thing is that whether you praise or criticize it must be on factual grounds. Not criticise just for its sake or so for praise.
If you ...
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Ghanaman,
I think you've got me confused with someone else. I am an ardent Nkrumahist, not a Danquahist.
Regards.
Kofi...) I would not say such a thing against you. I was not referring to you.
Ghanaman,
Thank you. It was a genuine mistake.
HE WROTE A MILLION BOOKS YET HE WAS A DICTATOR.
brainwashed 'matemeho' ni
Go lick the ass of the cia for a few bucks of $dollars to kill your ashawo mother & your pimp father
Target,
Behave yourself. I didn't write this article for language like this. Be polite to your NPP opponents in debate - and vise versa. Haba!
What was the dream of Kwame Nkrumah? To build library for Ghanaians or to unite Africa and rule over a larger nation. How was Ghanaian money was spent outside the country?
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS TO SEND TRAINED TEACHERS TO THE VILLAGES TO TEACH AND NOT A LIBRARY WHERE PEOPLE CANT READ.IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME.
Ghana need to institutionalize Kwame Nkrumah's mind and his thinking because that will hugely boost our development drive
Whatever,
Correct - 10/10 points!
THE LATE KWAME NKRUMARK
Kofi of Africa, I trust you were a member of the young pioneers and you grew up reciting the following:
Nkrumah does no wrong;and
Nkrumah never dies.
Please be advised that Nkrumah did good, but he had a lot of faults th ...
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Kwadjo,
No, I was a Boys Scout. My father fought in the Second European War - as part of the West African Frontiers with Sgt. Adjetey - to enable Ghana get its Independence. So he prefered the more soldier-like Boys Scout ...
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