27/04/2025
Kwame Nkrumah died on April 27, 1972. Like all human beings, Nkrumah had to depart this earth. The western world was not fond of Kwame Nkrumah. The western media painted him evil and pinned all kinds of labels on him, to the extent that western-trained African “scholars” fell in line and dared not portray him anything positive. Sadly, some African Educational authorities are still brainwashed not to recommend Kwame Nkrumah’s writings in school curricular. Our intellectuals feel proud quoting from Greek & Roman philosophers, politicians and scholars who STOLE ideas from African civilization and its institutions and labelled the continent “the dark continent”. Like all rare visionaries, Nkrumah, his name, his books, his ideas continue to be relevant in all the corners of the world in spite of the odds he faced. The search Africans have embarked upon to solve their intractable problems should definitely include Kwame Nkrumah who studied African History, African civilization, African traditional and social systems, rubbed shoulders with world giants like WEB DuBois, George Padmore, Jomo Kenyatta, Haile Sellasie, and inspired and continue to inspire many more African leaders. We should remember Kwame Nkrumah, not from a myopic, romanticised, selfish or jaundiced political point of view, but from a bigger worldview. Ghana, as a whole, should be proud of having given the world Kwame Nkrumah !
~ Kojo Yankah
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