Today in History, exactly 57 years ago, on 25 May 1963, the first African organisation after independence, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), was formed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in which President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana played a prominent role. Mr Nkrumah‘s speech at the founding of the OAU has since become a classic, even iconic….
Not many would have predicted that Kwame Nkrumah’s essay on Class Struggle in Africa was a prophesy waiting to be exposed by a fortuitous event like COVID-19. Writing in 1970, Nkrumah prophesied: “While there is no hard and fast dogma for socialist revolution, and specific circumstances at a definite historical period will determine the precise…
Samia Nkrumah, the only daughter of former President Kwame Nkrumah has taken to her social media handles to celebrate him 48 years after his death. She wrote: “It’s been 48 years since you travelled. Thank you for showing us how to create a just society in Ghana. Thank you for leaving us a vision for…
A former Gold Coast Politician, Joshua Attoh Quarshie, has alleged that Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana is not Ghanaian but a Liberian born to a Liberian father known as Kofi Nwia, and Nyaniba, the woman we have been reading in the history books as his mother rather adopted Kwame Nkrumah when…
