Zaya Yeebo The author argues that the failure of the Ghanaian Left to build on the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah is giving a good opportunity to the centre-right ruling party to develop and cement its neo-liberal ideology. On Monday, 7 January 2019 Ghanaians have been offered a unique opportunity to celebrate another holiday. The New…
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Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the All African People’s Conference
A conference in Accra, Ghana, revisited the 1958 All African People’s Conference, under the banner of “The Unfinished Business of Liberation and Transformation”. The legendary convenor of that first conference, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, famously said, “The objective is African Union. We must unite now or perish.” Yaw Adjei-Gyamfi considers how far we have journeyed towards…
Pan-Africanism Conference Charts Course Towards a Socialist Continent
The hundreds of delegates who met in Ghana held discussions on five major themes that are of prime importance in the struggle against capitalism and imperialism Delegates from 60 countries took part in the conference that was held in the city of Winneba in Ghana. Photo: Nina Fideles/Brasil de Fato Prasanth R. The third Pan-Africanism…
Unite or Perish: A Pan-African Cry
Kwame Nkrumah remained committed to the fight against capitalism and its effect: the underdevelopment of Africa. On the occasion of the commemoration of his 109th birthday, we should revisit his call for a united continent. Adjei-Gyamfi Yaw How good and pleasant it would be before God and man to see the unification of all Africans….
Who Was Kwame Nkrumah, Leader of the First Independent African Country?
Rute Pina Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra, capital of Ghana / Nina Fideles “We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world! Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.” With those words, African political leader Kwame…
Ghana: Pan-African Activists Remember Slavery at Africa’s Largest Slave Trading Post
Rute Pina More than 400 people from 50 countries are taking part in conference in Winneba, Ghana / Nina Fideles Activists from 50 countries gathered on Thursday to remember the forced dispersion of black people – also known as African diaspora – at Africa’s largest slave trading site. The group met at the São Jorge…
Banners of Solidarity Fly High at the Third Pan-Africanism Today Conference in Ghana
Over 400 militants-activists from nearly 60 countries gather in Winneba in Ghana to discuss the challenges before the working class and the possibilities of joint action Zoe PC and Prasanth R (Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee/New Frame) “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it.” For the 400-odd militants-activists at the Third Pan-Africanism Today…
3 Words Describe Kwame Nkrumah: ‘Africa Must Unite’
Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind. Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. It is clear that we find an African Solution to our problems and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are…
Canada’s Role in the Overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah
Yves Engler Friday, February 24 is the anniversary of the 1966 coup against leading Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah. Canada played a key role. Following the coup, the Canadian High Commissioner in Accra C.E. McGaughey, wrote that “a wonderful thing has happened for the West in Ghana and Canada has played a worthy part.” A half-century and…
Kwame Nkrumah | I Speak of Freedom
Kwame Nkrumah 1961 For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to “civilise” Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people. All…
Kwame Nkrumah | African Socialism
Kwame Nkrumah 1967 The term “socialism” has become a necessity in the platform diction and political writings of African leaders. It is a term which unites us in the recognition that the restoration of Africa’s humanist and egalitarian principles of society calls for socialism. All of us, therefore, even though pursuing widely contrasting policies in…
Kwame Nkrumah | Neo-colonialism, The Last Stage of Imperialism
Excerpt Kwame 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…
