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Voice from Conakry
80 pages, Paperback
First published December 16, 2006
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Kwame Nkrumah
97 books403 followersKwame Nkrumah PC was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He was the first prime minister and president of Ghana, having led it to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.
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November 2, 2021
One of my biggest criticisms of the Osagyefo centered on his reluctance in entertaining an armed struggle to regain power after that Neo-colonist February 1966 coup. In this book which contains Nkrumah's radio broadcasts to the people of Ghana from Guinea, I just can't help but be consumed with much frustration at Nkrumah's appreciation of the situation in Ghana.
In these radio broadcasts, some 6 to 7 of them sent by Nkrumah between February to December 1966, you can almost experience with him the rollercoaster of emotions, first hope then impatience and finally something of a stubborn acceptance of his damned fate not to ever return to Ghana.
Never once did the Osagyefo ever relent in his faith that the masses of Ghana would eventually, rather sooner than later, rise and rid themselves of the NLC, paving way for his return to the country. Very inspirational, I guess. But too much to ask of the masses, in essence, Nkrumah was expecting a bottom-up revolution to kick out the renegade rogue army and police elements that organized the 1966 putsch. Painfully it was never to be. How I wished he used Guinea as a staging base to launch an armed insurgency to retake power like Obote did in Uganda, with Tanzania's help to kick out Idi Amin in 1979.
In these radio broadcasts, some 6 to 7 of them sent by Nkrumah between February to December 1966, you can almost experience with him the rollercoaster of emotions, first hope then impatience and finally something of a stubborn acceptance of his damned fate not to ever return to Ghana.
Never once did the Osagyefo ever relent in his faith that the masses of Ghana would eventually, rather sooner than later, rise and rid themselves of the NLC, paving way for his return to the country. Very inspirational, I guess. But too much to ask of the masses, in essence, Nkrumah was expecting a bottom-up revolution to kick out the renegade rogue army and police elements that organized the 1966 putsch. Painfully it was never to be. How I wished he used Guinea as a staging base to launch an armed insurgency to retake power like Obote did in Uganda, with Tanzania's help to kick out Idi Amin in 1979.
January 27, 2023
A collection of radio speeches given by Kwame Nkrumah, while in exile in Guinea and following his overthrow by a military coup. It's very short, and written and delivered in the heat of the moment, or it feels. After all, here's a Colossus who just felt flat, a man eaten by bitterness, resent, and anger, and descending into insults against his enemies. There's not much critical analysis of the events that had led him where he was, and the tone is quite venomous indeed. Does it worth a read?
In my opinion: no. His main argument that is, that whose behind the coup have been organised by Western imperialisms, will be better detailed in Dark Days in Ghana, and the rest is nothing but spite delivered out of anger.
In my opinion: no. His main argument that is, that whose behind the coup have been organised by Western imperialisms, will be better detailed in Dark Days in Ghana, and the rest is nothing but spite delivered out of anger.
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