Suppression of Nkrumah’s Legacy, Damaging to Ghana

Suppression of President Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah legacy is still ongoing and damaging to Ghana—

The sell, lack of maintenance, closing of hospitals and businesses established by Nkrumah, including the redefining of the Pan African Movement, and the African Union (formerly known as the Organization of African Unity (OAU), founded by President Nkrumah and King Haile Salassie) has been damaging to Ghana/Africa.

Nkrumah’s agriculture, industrialization, education and African-centered efforts for the purpose of decolonization, Black upliftment and then redevelop of what was once known as the Colonial Gold Coast (a.k.a. “slave hub’ by white/European slave traders) has been and is being suppressed.

The suppression of Nkrumah is out of fears, corruption/extreme money-hungriness, Eurocentric indoctrination and loyalty to the British monarch, or simply a “circus of incompetence” (K. Koranteng) or all of the above.

The suppression efforts are via white supremacists’, racist so called Arabs/”half-castes” and ‘Negropeanism”, particularly in the African Union (AU) providing an observation seat for Israel; including government closures of businesses, factories and canneries built by Nkrumah.

The corruption, banking issues and a failing cedi: ‘Tribalism’: and Black elitism struggle for status in an “underdeveloped” African nation, is complex, including the Ghana Freemasonry selfish dues (paid in pounds, Euros or dollars to Europe) exacerbates the problems.

Today, Euro-organizations infiltrating Ghana/Africa, that have nothing to do with African-centeredness, Ghanaian traditional chieftaincies cultures and belief systems, and does not encourage a form of ‘African democracy’, this of course is anti-Pan African.

With that being said, let us not forget Dr. Matthew “Napo” Opoku Prempeh damaging July 9, 2024 campaign rally cry to win favor with his political party. Quite frankly, Napo inept efforts to “compare and contrast” founder of Ghana National College in 1948, founder of his own political party, the first prime minister, founder and named the country, first president of the Republic of Ghana and major contributions to building the infrastructure and government administration, and co-President of Guinea, Kwame Nkrumah –to “the circus” as described by Koranteng, was pointless, matter of fact Napo lost points with many in the public.

Ultimately, Napo’s public letter of apology added insult to injury among many on the local and continental level. Napo revealed to the international community a lack of sincerity and foolishness stirring in Ghana politics, and basically nothing but a desperate man’s ill attempt to exhibit a vow of loyalty to a political regime and its cronies that has failed an African nation (today, $1 = Ghc15+).

Ghana seems to forget it connected to the World Wide Web a little over 20 years ago. As a result, Ghana is now on stage for all to see and analyze when there are political debacles, supporting white supremacists/neo-colonialists, and/or when it suppresses President Nkrumah, who many in the African Diaspora have not forgotten and continue to respect by building schools and monuments to honor him.

Nkrumah, who spent ten years in the United States attending schools and soldering among Black revolutionaries.

Nkrumah, in the mist of Marcus Garvey’s Garveyites, the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Power Activism of the Nation of Islam, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), in addition Nkrumah revolutionary speeches in the streets of New York and Washington, and among attendees at the United Nation building.

Nkrumah played a role in the Pan African Congress in Manchester, United Kingdom, which he repatriated, bringing the Fifth Pan African Congress across the Atlantic Ocean to an oppressed Africa, which white/European colonialists had a chokehold and exploiting.

“Self-government now” –Kwame Nkrumah, a socialist, a Pan Africanist; and an independence and nationalism, which the 1992 Constitution is built upon. How soon some in Ghana’s major political parties forget, and many in the political parties still try to challenge and strain to suppress.

References:
“NPP, NDC’s display of incompetence leaves system ripe for a third force” – Kofi Koranteng

JoyOnline, retrieved July 30, 2024, https://www.myjoyonline.com/npp-ndcs-display-of-incompetence-leaves-system-ripe-for-a-third-force-kofi-koranteng/.

Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh apologizes for controversial Nkrumah remark, retrieved July 30, 2024,

https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/ghana-news-dr-matthew-opoku-prempeh-apologizes-for-controversial-your-nkrumah-remark.htm

How did Israel end up with AU observer status?, retrieved July 30, 2024,

https://africanarguments.org/2022/04/how-did-israel-end-up-with-au-observer-status/

The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah by Kwame Nkrumah

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Dr. Walter Rodney

Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Dr. Marimba Ani

African Global Ourstory: An Introduction to African & African Diaspora Studies by Dr. K. Makeda Muhammad

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Dr. K. Makeda Muhammad is a ‘Repatriate’/returnee to Africa via Ghana in 2011. Dr. Makeda’s field of study is Black Studies; she is an author of three books, independent researcher, historian, educator, recipient of Ghana’s Education Community (EDUCOM) Award, a Pan Africanist, Africana Womanist (C. Hudson-Weems), community and social media activist.

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