Browsing: Kwame Nkrumah

We explore the life of the great pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah. After spending a year in a British colonial jail for organising a ‘positive action’ campaign…

Our revolutionary forefathers, such as Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah (1909-72), featured in this week’s Wednesday’s Wisdom, knew that the freedom of the Congo is integral to…

On this day (14 January) in 1965, Ghana welcomed the Argentine-born revolutionary Che Guevara (1928-67) during his three-month journey across Africa. Guevara’s mission was to forge…

Neo-colonialism, as defined by Kwame Nkrumah, is the practice of using economic, political and cultural tools to control a country without direct military occupation. The effective…

On this day in 1916, independent Algeria’s first elected president, a true revolutionary fighter, was born. Ben Bella’s journey to prominence began during World War II,…

Africa’s sorry predicament is not an accident, and its leaders play an integral role in subjugating the continent to the former colonial masters, according to Ghanaian…

In 2019, at Oxford Union’s debate society, African People’s Socialist Party (@APSPusa on X) founder and Chairman Omali Yeshitela provided an insightful breakdown of why the…

It’s an intergenerational struggle that goes back at least one century: The fight for Africa’s total unification. Long understood to be the key to Africa’s freedom…

“If you bury the truth in the deepest depths of the ocean, one day it will swim its way out” – so goes an African proverb,…

On 21 September 1909, Kwame Nkrumah, one of pan-Africanism’s founding fathers, was born in Nkroful, Gold Coast – now Ghana.   Nkrumah served as Ghana’s first…