Revolutionary Path

by Kwame Nkrumah

This book, compiled durting the last two years of the author's life, demonstrates the growth, development and consistency of Kwame Nkrumah's political thought. It contains many key documents previously unpublished. Editorials and articles from the Accra Evening News, speeches and broadcasts, as well as key sections from books and pamphlets written in Conakry, Guinea between 1966-1971 illustrate landmarks in his life as a leading theorist and ardent activist of the African and world socialist revolutionary struggle. Kwame Nkrumah died April 27, 1972 in Bucharest, Roumania, far from his beloved Africa. He was fighting to recover his health so tha he might continue to serve the people of Africa and the cause fulled his whole life-the liberation of all Africa, the endign of all forms of explotation and oppression throughout the world.

Genres: Africa, Nonfiction

532 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Kwame 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.

Reviews

[Kwame Brifo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fascinating read that chronologically captures Kwame Nkrumah's fight for economic and political independence from his student days in America and England till his twilight years in exile.


Current opinion:
Whether one agrees with Osagyefo's ideology of scientific socialism is besides the point but it is evident, not just in his plans but also in his works that this was a man who had the interest of the everyday African at the very fore of his mind. He had an understanding of the political and economic forces at play at all stages of colonial Africa and was convinced of a way of eradicating neocolonialism. It is sad to see some of the problems he sought to combat in the 60s and 70s still prominent today. While Kwame Nkrumah swore by the formation of a union government of Africa as the sole solution to the many ills plaguing the continent, I am curious if there might have been/are alternative arrangements.

[RK Byers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nkrumah was crazier than i ever would have imagined.