Ghana has not honoured my father enough – Samia Nkrumah

Samia Nkrumah, the daughter of Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has voiced that the country has not honoured her father’s legacy enough.

Speaking on Starr Chat with Bola Ray on September 5, 2024, Samia Nkrumah expressed the need for her father’s ideas to be incorporated into the educational system.

“The day when his books become part of the curriculum, the day when his books are read and people are familiar with his ideas, agree or disagree with him, then Ghana indeed would have done him justice,” she stated.

She emphasized the need for Ghanaians to be educated on her father’s work by critically engaging with them. “We can debate it. We can argue about it. We can take things from it, reject others, but we have to become familiar with it,” she expressed.

She also accepted the personal responsibility of preserving her father’s legacy, stating that it was the job of people who followed or liked him to keep his views relevant. “I think it is the responsibility of those of us who are his followers or who claim to be his followers.

"It is our responsibility. And that’s why over the last few years, I sat down, I thought, no, I have to write something. I have to write, tell our father’s story from a daughter’s perspective,” she emphasized.

In response to Bola Ray’s suggestion of a Kwame Nkrumah movie on a site like Netflix, Samia Nkrumah said, “Absolutely. Yes, indeed. And we’ve started. And we will do it because that’s one way of bringing his whole story to life. And, you know, Nkrumah’s story is an African story.

"It’s a Ghanaian story. It’s a story of Ghana, of Africa, of Black people all over the world,” she declared.

“I’m very happy that our son, my son Kwame, and a group of young people, and that’s what is wonderful, is that the younger generation, not even my generation, the one after me, is working on a TV series,” she added.