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February 8, 2010
Nkrumah for President!
Much like the resurrection of Malcolm X in the 90’s
and Che Guevara in the 2000’s, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is being born again 100
years after his birth in Ghana.
Like all the revolutionaries before and after him,
Nkrumah became enemy of the state. His progressive ideas were seen as
subversive by America and thus by the elite that the Americans established
as their pawns in Ghana. By financing propaganda campaigns and sabotaging
all of his projects, the C.I.A., in cohorts with some of the fathers of
the today’s politicians, overthrew one of Africa’s most stalwart
leaders and replaced him with neo-colonialist stooges . In fact, the son
of the man who blew up several children by giving them a bouquet of
flowers to hand to the then President Nkrumah has just been voted the
Chairman of the leading opposition party, the NPP, the previous ruling
party. And although the present party in power, NDC, should be commended
for restoring the dignity that rightfully belongs with Nkrumah’s legacy,
history shows that they neglected to resume any of his projects that were
designed to create a sovereign nation in practical terms and not just in
theory, also choosing the interest of the Imperialist over the interest of
Ghana.
So why all of a sudden is Nkrumah’s name on all of
their lips? The answer is simple, you can kill the body, but you can’t
kill the spirit, it only multiplies. Kwesi Pratt said it best, Nkrumah’s
legacy consist of a catalogue of ideas. He made people visualize the
grand potential of Africa, united, sovereign and proud. That vision took
root in today’s generation who supplement their education with the wide
availability of information on line. A generation, who also have bore
witness to the systematic enslavement of their parents and the selective
enrichment of the few that cooperated with the imperialist. Disgusted by
mismanagement and marginalization the masses are pleading for the spirit
of our most beloved ancestor to reign in justice one more time.
Nkrumahist speak unkindly about America’s role then
and now in Africa, thus they are never funded and rarely have a chance of
winning an election. But that might change. With oil in Ghana, the
divide between rich and poor is growing exponentially and the sense of
despair is increasing amongst the masses. Ghanaians have already proven
unpredictable at the polls, so further suppression might just be the
catalyst to bring about the much needed change. Modern day Nkrumah for
President!
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