Ghana in Focus Special: Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day - Nkrumah, Ghana and Afrikan emancipation

Today marks Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day in Ghana, a time to reflect on the profound legacy of a man whose vision for African unity and sovereignty continues to reverberate across the continent. Nkrumah's dream of a united, self-sufficient Africa free from Western interference remains as relevant today as it was during his leadership of Ghana from 1957 to 1966. His overthrow by a CIA and MI6-backed coup exemplifies the lengths to which Western powers will go to prevent African unity and self-determination.

The parallels between Nkrumah's era and contemporary Ghana under President John Mahama are striking and worthy of close examination. Since his inauguration in January 2024, Mahama has strategically strengthened ties with the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES) – Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger – countries that have rejected French imperialism and Western military presence. This alliance echoes Nkrumah's Casablanca Group formed nearly 65 years ago, which similarly threatened Western hegemony in Africa. When Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso attended Mahama's inauguration, he received the loudest cheers from Ghana's youth, demonstrating growing pan-African sentiment among new generations.

Ghana's economic strategies under Mahama also mirror Nkrumah's vision of self-reliance. The country has established a Gold Board to retain more of its gold resources within the country, moving away from previous arrangements where approximately 95% of Ghana's gold went outside the country. This significant shift has allowed Ghana to build substantial gold reserves, strengthening the Ghanaian cedi and reducing dependency on International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionalities. The cedi has appreciated by approximately 23% since January, reflecting the impact of this policy shift despite recent fluctuations.

These moves toward economic sovereignty are precisely what made Nkrumah a target for Western intervention in the 1960s. When Nkrumah declared independence and sought to lead a united, self-sufficient Africa, Western powers panicked. He launched industrial projects to make Ghana a model for Africa's industrialization, rejected IMF dependency, and amassed reserves of $250 million by 1957 using cocoa receipts that had previously enriched Britain. These funds fueled Ghana's development through projects like the Akosombo Dam, Ghana Airways, Tema Harbour, and numerous industries.

More threatening to Western interests was Nkrumah's continental vision: an African Investment Bank, an African High Command for security, a single African currency, and steadfast support for liberation movements across the continent. These initiatives directly challenged Western dominance in global politics – the same way Ghana's current alignment wi

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Ghana In Focus
• 3:14 Mahama's Strategic African Alliances
• 6:15 Ghana's Gold Reserves and Economic Independence
• 13:21 Nkrumah's Vision for African Unity
• 21:08 The 1966 Coup: Demolition of Sovereignty
• 24:09 Why the West Fears African Unity
• 32:59 Nkrumah's Legacy and Africa's Future
• 37:30 Closing Thoughts and Next Episode

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:07

Welcome to this week's edition of Ghana In Focus with myself, kwame, ghanaian writer, broadcaster, journalist, podcast and entrepreneur. And this week's edition of Ghana In Focus is special. Today is Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, celebrating the life of Kwame Nkrumah, and this edition of Ghana In Focus, we're talking about Kwame Nkrumah, ghana and African Emancipation. So very, very interesting topic here for you today, special day, which is the Earth Day of Kwame Nkrumah. Well, it's 21st, but the 22nd of September it's a national holiday in Ghana and people are celebrating and, you know, commemorating the Earth Strong, or the birthday of Kramer, and Kramer the great man and what he stood for, not just for Ghana, not just for the African continent, but for the black race, african race generally speaking. So this is a very, very interesting discussion that we're going to have Kwame Nkrumah, ghana and African emancipation. Before then, just to make you aware that if you like what you hear, please share it with your friends, family, social media networks. Subscribe to Ghana African Focus on YouTube. We want to get as many followers as we can on that platform. Also, subscribe to Ghana African Focus on Spotify. Again, you know, just look out for Ghana African Focus on Spotify, click the follow button and that will mean that every time we upload a new podcast on Spotify, spotify will notify you, okay, and if you want to donate to the show, we accept kind donations. So if you want to donate to the show to help us to continue to bring you fantastic content coming out of Ghana and from the African continent, you can please do. You can subscribe or you are. We can donate rather as little as three. You may do as a month, you can do it as a month or just a one-off payment and just click on the donate button. Again, if you want to do business in Ghana, you know you want to look at things like in the citizenship once. Look, I feel that the Ghana card, how I set to, how much the business in Ghana. Look, you know you want to look at things like in the citizenship. You want to look at things like the Ghana card, how I set up, how I wish to do business in Ghana, look at land, etc. Then we do offer a consultation session. I've got 10 years of experience of doing business in Ghana. So if you want to, if you are interested in doing business in Ghana or coming to Ghana, things that you may need, some information that you may require, then the email address is in the front of the show. You can just drop me a quick email and then we can book you in for a consultation. So it's $30 an hour for a full consultation or $20 for a half an hour briefing session.

Speaker 1: 3:07

Alright, so let's get into this podcast looking about Kwame Nkrumah, ghana and African Emancipation. Now, did you know that? You know, since John Jumaane Mahama came back to power actually, you know, he won last year's election by a massive landslide and he was inaugurated on the 7th of January this year John Muhammad has made some very, very interesting moves on the African continent that are beginning to roll the West, the same way that Nkrumah moves the West. Let me tell you what Muhammad has done since becoming president in these eight short months. So, under Mahama, ghana has quietly been strengthening its ties with the Sahel countries. So the, you know the, the AES, the alliance of Sahian States, namely Burkina Faso, mali and Niger, who have rejected French imperialism yeah, and French and American military presence in their countries by, as I mentioned, the newly formed Pan-African Alliance that they call the AES. Now, why this is important is because Mohammed's movement is in the direction, because and this is quite ironic, because if you were there or if you saw streams of, or YouTube videos of, john Muhammad's inauguration. Of all the African leaders that attended the inauguration of John Muhammad, the leader who got the biggest cheer was who? Ibrahim Chorwe, or Burkina Faso. So the youth in Ghana, as well as the youth around the world, underscore the importance of what Ibn Chur is doing by desensitizing himself from French colonial rule and by getting rid of French and American military attaché in the country.

Speaker 1: 5:24

So, just like in Kruma and his Casablanca group, the AES, the alliance of the AES, threatens Western hegemony, particularly in the Francophone area, so-called Francophone area. So you have these 14 countries in Africa. That's big French. So you have Burkina Faso, you're Mali, niger, benin, togo, la Côte d'Ivoire, senegal, cameroon and there's a couple of others Congo, brazzaville, a couple of others. That AES threatens that francophone grip that they've had on Africa for the best part of 60 years. And so you know, by Mahama trying to make those moves strategically to form a broader alliance with the AAS, that's sending panic bills in London, paris and Washington.

Speaker 1: 6:29

However, and this is even why Ghana you see Ghana, this is in Krumah Ghana has always been at the centre of the African Renaissance. Yeah, we saw it in Krumah. Yeah, he showed the way for African liberation and Africans gaining independence in the late 50s and 60s. Now Ghana is trying to be a driver by trying to align itself with the AES. This is what Nkrumah did when Nkrumah formed, nearly 65 years ago, the Katabanga group. That involved Ghana, guinea and, I believe, mali. And so Ghana is also exploring new energy partnerships here.

Speaker 1: 7:17

And that's because since the end of the year but credit has to be credited to you the last MPP government started this you could say uplift within the reserves of Ghana getting in terms of the gold. Mpp started that by the gold for oil program that enabled Ghana to barter its gold for oil and teach of that gold to get gold reserves. And since the turn of the year when Mahama came in, those gold reserves have now been strengthened because the NDC under Mahama have got a programme. They've scrapped the Gold for Oil programme. They've now constituted a board called the Gold Board, whereby Ghana is now retaining as I said previously, ghana is now retaining a lot of gold that is mined in Ghana, as compared to previous governments that allowed the west to take about 95 percent of the gold outside of Ghana. Under this gold border, mohammed instituted beginning of January, ghana has now been able to muster a lot of gold reserves.

Speaker 1: 8:30

So because of this, then, ghana is now exploring partnerships in terms of energy, and you know I told you recently about the big push, for Muhammad went to Japan to seek investment in renewable energy infrastructure. Remember that. So, aside from that, it's also Ghana has also been using subtle shift away from IMF dependency. Yeah, and this is sending a clear message that Ghana might become too independent to handle, and this is definitely a threat to the West. This is again a reason why Nkrumah was, you know, had to come down, but I'll get to that in a minute. So Ghana now has now flexed its muscles because of the gold disease that it's got now by looking elsewhere, apart from the West, for his energy renewables and his energy future.

Speaker 1: 9:30

Yeah, and again, you know I told you about the city going up beginning of the year or mid-year. It's gone down a bit, but it's still 23% up, as it was as opposed to January this year. That's because Ghana has ignored, in a certain way, imf debt tax and is using gold reserves to prop up the city. But now it's been a bit late recently, which explains why the Ghana city has lost a bit of value recently because the government of Ghana is not really pushing, as it was, the gold reserve avenue, whereby he's using gold reserves to strengthen the city. So, and even the IMF can rebuke Ghana in that point, which made Ghana, you know, put leaves a bit and not go through throttle with, you know, the strength of the Ghana city, because if it did, the Ghana city would be probably, you know, would probably be about between about $9 and $10 to a dollar, as opposed to it now being between $2 and $13 to $1. When you compare it to the beginning of the year, when it was about $15 to $1, then you see the significance of Ghana's gold reserves and Ghana's gold reserves as a lever to make the currency strong. So this is kind of making the West a bit a bit about Ghana, and you know why.

Speaker 1: 11:13

You know Ghana needs to be looked at carefully because of two things. Because of one, it's drift to become self-reliance, as what Nkrumah wanted to do, and also its alliance, apparently, with Burkina Faso, mali and Niger. In actual fact, ghana has allowed Burkina Faso to use its port because Burkina Faso is a landlocked country and La Côte d'Ivoire, which is a part of the west is a landlocked country and Le Côte d'Ivoire, which is a puppet of the west, of France, in particular, will not allow Burkina Faso to use its port. Yeah, so Ghana has also allowed Burkina Faso and Mali and Niger to use its port to be able to export its goods to other countries. So this is again hampered, is again annoying France in particular, because France controlled those key components of those economies of Mali, burkina Faso and Niger. So this is kind of deja vu, because this is something similar to what Nkrumah did.

Speaker 1: 12:25

Yeah, so what we see now is that the West now want to try and make an example of Ghana, like they did in Nkrumah's day. Yeah, and this is important because when Kwame Nkrumah declared Ghana's independence and sought to lead a united, self-sufficient Africa, western powers at the time, as they are today, they panicked. Yeah, because Nkrumah was not really, he didn't really prove alliances with the West. He made more alliances with China, yeah, as some Africanans are doing today and you know they kind of live in the west and wanting to put the lines of the likes of china and india. So, and at the time, the civic union also in kuma, you know, tried to form partnerships with. So, aside from this and kuma also launched industrial projects. Yeah, because he wanted to industrialize ghana as a model, as a template for the rest of africa. Yeah, and he rejected imf dependency. You know dependency? Yeah, so, nkrumah, up until the first seven years, nkrumah didn't go to IMF. Nkrumah did not go to IMF Because, as leader of government businesses sorry, as leader of government businesses in 1951, kareem Nkrumah was able to use the COCOA receipts that Britain was stealing and using that to build Britain.

Speaker 1: 14:01

After Second World War, kwame Nkrumah said no, I'm not going to allow you to take our cocoa receipts right and you use it for your economy. I'm going to use it for my economy. Ghana. So when? So, by the time that Ghana became independent from British colonial rule in 1957, nkrumah had amassed reserves of the $250 million. Yeah, and that's 1957. Nkrumah had amassed reserves of the 250 million dollars. Yeah, and that's what Nkrumah used to redevelop Ghana. You know, after 1957, the, the, the harbour, you know the gold factory, you know the Ghana Airways, the Temak Community Project, uh, the distilled company, etc. Etc. Etc.

Speaker 1: 14:42

So this is a threat. This was a direct threat to Western hegemony. Aside from that, nkrumah's vision of an African investment bank yeah, an African high command for security and military purposes. And also the Incumbent Proposal of Single Currency. This threatened the US petrodollar system again, incumbent.

Speaker 1: 15:13

Support for liberation movements. All of the content, like the ANC Incumbent supported the ANC. Yeah, incumbent received the mid-tribune of the ANC. Incumbkrumah supported the ANC. Yeah, in country we see the mid-tribune of the ANC. Nkrumah also supported in the Pachislimba in the Congo. Nkrumah also supported Mugabe in so-called Rhodesia at the time, zimbabwe. Today, yeah, nkrumah, you know, supported not just financially but also, you know, militarily and training and also psychologically helped these liberation movements. And that again challenged the western dominance in global politics. And again we see this today with Ghana trying to forge alliances with the AAS. That's ringing the timbre of the west. So we see the same thing that Nkrumah did, same thing that's happening in Ghana now with Mohammed making his strategic moves to join the AAS. So all this is what Nkrumah did right in terms of the industrialization of Ghana, in terms of the African Unity Project, in terms of the African Central Bank, in terms of the African Military High Command.

Speaker 1: 16:28

Supporting the British movements is why, in Krummer, to go Now the coup of 1966, right, which was mustered by the CIA of America with British MI6 support. That coup wasn't just a coup. It was a surgical demolition of African sovereignty. Because, in Cromer, what he was doing was trying to make Ghana not just Ghana, but but Africa sovereign. You know, that's what I was talking about. You know, sovereign sovereignty by not allowing Japan and Pakistan to invest in their own country, in Ghana, but to seek African support, particularly African diaspora support and home support, because it gives us sovereignty over our economy.

Speaker 1: 17:25

Yeah, and so the white men don't like this. The west have never liked africa to be sovereign. So this is why that coup, yeah, was like a strategical demolition of african sovereignty, because nkrumah had dared to build an independent Perthian state, ie Ghana, which included nationalising Ghana's economy and resist nuclear interference. So all the things that Nkrumah did, amongst others, by building the Akusumbo Dam, ghana Airways, temah Harbour, and also by refusing IMF conditionalities, made Nkrum criminal, a marked man. Yeah, he made in criminal, a marked man. This is why he had to go. So In the same way, yeah, that they that they knew best that the West all that they know is, when you have leaders like Nkrumah, and now what we see with the AES, ibn Chowri and others, yeah, what the West does, what the white man does is use is basically to kill, africa to kill. So this is why, yeah, when you look at Ibn Chorwe, more than 25 attempts in his life have been made. Why? Because Chorwe is new in Krumah. In Chorwe, he's shown the way in his own country, burkina Faso, and he's instrumental, like in Krumah, in terms of the Casablanca group. Ibn Chorwe is instrumental with the formation of the Casablanca group. Ibn Chow is instrumental with the formation of the Alliance of Salarian States, the AES, yeah.

Speaker 1: 19:07

And so what they did to Nkrumah in 1966, yeah, was economic strangulation. They sabotaged, yeah, ghana's economy. The same way, if they had they're probably thinking of it they want to sabotage Burkina Faso economy, mali economy and Niger economy. So, going back in 1966, they sabotaged Ghana's economy by covert funding of opposition infiltration sorry, by covert funding in terms of the MPP, who back then were called the UGCC, yeah, and then they funded also renegade military forces in in terms of Ghana armed forces. So people like Kutaka, general Ankara, afrifa they were the ones who deposed Nkrumah. Yeah, but they were funded by the white man.

Speaker 1: 20:06

And also the psychological warfare by saying that Nkrumah is a dictator, blah, blah, blah. He's doing this, doing that, as part of the effort to get rid of Nkrumah, the same way that the West will try to discredit Ibn Choray, which is why this early this year there was a global day of protest, particularly in the African world. Yeah, that if you dare remove Choray, you kill him. Like this, nkrumah, things happen to you and so what they will do to Choray is try and you, you know, use media propaganda that and it's already been started that, oh, he's a dictator, he's not allowing for free, so-called elections, he's giving the wealth to which his family, blah, blah, blah. This is the same propaganda they used to get rid of in Krumah and so, at the time, to get rid of Nkrumah.

Speaker 1: 21:08

And so, at the time of the coup 1966, while Nkrumah was away on a peace mission to Vietnam, hanoi, a CIA, mi6 backed military coup over his government. And this evidence is no longer con. This is not conjecture. This has been openly admitted by the white man, america, in declassified CIA documents. Yeah, when they admit, the CIA admits that they're monitoring in criminal pan-African activities and considering him a threat to Western interests, just like today they're monitoring Ibn Chowri and the AAS, because the activities of Ibn Chowri and the AES are a threat to French in particular, but also Western interests in Africa.

Speaker 1: 21:59

When the criminals were thrown, yeah, a western puppet, yeah, was put in place in Ghana. You know the so called National Liberation Council. Yeah, they were the puppets. They were the soldiers, renegade soldiers who had been infiltrated by American intelligence and also by British secret services. Yeah, people like General Ankara, afrifa and who's the other one, afrifa? Yeah, kotaka Afrifa and Ankara. Yeah, they were the members of the so-called National Liberation Council.

Speaker 1: 22:37

They were basically pro-Western, very, very puppet in the regime and they put Ghana on a backward trajectory by erasing Nkrumah's 17th development plan and other Nkrumahist policies that Nkrumah had proposed or put in place while in power, and so this put Ghana back at least 50 years since only now that Ghana is beginning to recover from that. You know destruction by the west that they have done to Ghana since Nkrumah was removed into the six, and so this is why Ghana now Ghana has again been put a threat, because they see Ghana, like they did back then, as the um, you could say godfather of African emancipation, and Mohammed is moving strategically to form alliances who are non-western for a purpose to have African emancipation. But the West is threatened by African emancipation. As long as the West is there. They will never, ever allow Africa to unite. And let me tell you why Western powers resist any semblance of African unity and why they need to kill, you know, african leaders who they feel present a threat to their hegemony of Africa. So the big one is resource control. Yeah, this is why the west will do anything and anything that they can to stop African unity. Because one resource control now check this Africa holds 90 percent of those platinum, half 50 percent of the world's gold, 40 percent of global reserves of rare earth minerals. This is rare earth gems. You know there's earth gems that talking about Ukraine the other day and that trump wanted to do a minerals deal with ukraine there's a rare earth gems that can be for industrialization. Yeah, there's 40 percent of that in africa.

Speaker 1: 24:51

Yeah, also, africa has got vast oil, gas and hydro power that the west needs. So a lot of this. And also renewable energy like solar. Do you know that they're thinking of building a solar power farm, I think, somewhere in North Africa that's going to shine directly on Europe so that they can have renewable energy at our expense? Because, you know, because of this Russia-Ukraine war and the sanctions on Russia, yeah, they ie the West, they don't want to buy Russian oil and gas anymore. Yeah, and America has warned them about that. Even Trump the other day said that you know I want to help you. Yeah, but you're going to help me by buying my oil instead of buying Russian oil and gas. Yeah, so you know the West is looking for viable alternative energy sources. So this is why, again looking to Africa, yeah, for the solar power. Yeah, because the sun don't shine in Europe every day. Look at right now. We're in autumn in Europe right now, approaching Approaching winter. It's going to be dark, the days will become shorter, night will become longer, it's getting cold. So Europe needs that energy reserve that they're buying now from Russia. They're still buying from Russia, but they're looking for alternatives and Africa is the alternative.

Speaker 1: 26:19

Aside from that, like I mentioned, africa has vast oil and gas reserves. Yeah, also, Africa has lithium. New Yorkers have got lithium. That is crucial for the AI, fourth industrial revolution. Yeah, look at these electric cars and you know electric, you know components made of lithium, and half of those lithium reserves are in Africa. Also, africa has vast agriculture potential. Western companies now are in Africa trying to buy agriculture land. Like I told you, this is why the white farmers in Zimbabwe. This is what they're doing. White farmers in South Africa, and now these same white farmers want to go to Mozambique, because they understand the importance and the fertile nature of our land. Yeah, also, united Africa can negotiate as a block. Yeah, set its own prices and end as positive contracts. This threatens western corporations and economies that is being built up on cheap raw material extraction. This is why they fear african unity. This is why, in Cromart, they go. Now check this. Another reason why they fear African unity Debt and dependency.

Speaker 1: 27:48

Western-led institutions like the IMF, world Bank keep African nations in perpetual cycles of debt. So forget this nonsense. Right that they're coming to open, no, the IMF, world Bank, their agenda, right, but they're very sweet with their words. They're very deceptive with their words, but their real agenda is to keep African countries in cycles of debt. Yeah, and we saw after the increment got removed, ghana went to the IMF in 67, I think. Yeah, and Ghana's been to IMF 17 times and yet the economy is still messed up. This is why NDC under Mahama are being very, very smart and not wanting to follow IMF tax. Yeah, and keeping that cycle there because they want to make Ghana, using its gold reserves now less dependent on IMF or bank.

Speaker 1: 28:44

Yeah, so, as we know, loans come with conditions, ie privatisation of your state companies, austerity and reducing sovereignty, and that reduces sovereignty. Yeah, like I mentioned, sovereignty is very, very important. Again, a self-sufficient Africa would reject these harsh conditions that have been placed on these loans. Yeah, africa would build its own financial systems and therefore control its own development agenda, because right now, africa does not control its development agenda. Development agenda is controlled by the West, ie under the so-called Millennium Development Goals. Now they're called Sustainable Development Goals.

Speaker 1: 29:29

Yeah, and, like I said this thing about also Japan last week as well. Right, we don't need Japan or the West to tell us about development. Right, we need to use an African-centred system to develop our content in our countries by having an arrangement by ourselves that detects how development should be. Development should be an Africa-centered system, not a Western or Asian-centered system. That is the way of Africa. Again, geopolitical influence is why the West say African unity. So Africa's location strategic in terms of shipping routes, military bases and also voting blocs in the UN make it a global chessboard. So African unity would mean non-alignment, stronger ties with Russia, china or internal blocks such as ECOWAS or the Comessa, which is the common market of East Africa, and then the AU, africa and then the AU. Yeah, this threatens these alliances, ie non-alignment with the West, threatens Western dominance and global diplomacy.

Speaker 1: 30:48

Again, african unity or pan-Africanism promotes indigenous development, cultural revival and, more importantly, political and economic sovereignty, which is very, very important in terms of emancipation and being able to self-determine one's destiny, one's future. Because this self-determination, it rejects the idea that the Western liberal democracy is the only path towards emancipation. That's what Nkrumah said. Nkrumah said that the Western impervious system is not the model that we should adopt. We should adopt, in his words, an African social system. Yeah, that's the only way that we can emancipate ourselves.

Speaker 1: 31:36

So we need to understand what Nkrumah said right that this Western liberal democracy that we're following right, is not for Africa. It never has been for Africa. It's not designed for Africa. This so-called election cycle every four or five years, you go and vote, put your thumb on an X or whatever, and you think you've got democracy. No, this Western democracy does not work for Africa because it is not designed to work for Ghana, for Africa.

Speaker 1: 32:02

And so they may say someone like Kagame, who's been in power for 30 odd years, is a dictator. But that's our system. That's our system, you know one, you know you could say one party ruler, whatever, as opposed to this so-called multi-party democracy that has not worked in Africa for 60 years. And so you know, a united Africa would challenge the ideological supremacy of the West, offering new models of governance and economic structure. Yeah, and finally, you know, the white man has always feared Africans like Nkrumah, who pushed unity, sovereignty and self-determination, were either overthrown, assassinated or demonised, as we see now with Ibn Churri.

Speaker 1: 32:57

So what Nkrumah envisioned for Africa is African currency, a contentor military high command that would, you know, safeguard our security and our land. Because what's happening in the Congo, what's happening in Somalia, what's happening in Sudan, what would happen if we went to Nkrumah and if they had the African military high command and all these renegade forces, all these mercenaries that are in Africa? They would be eliminated had we listened to Nkrumah and had the African high command. Again, shared infrastructure, so we share infrastructure. So, rather than go to the West right to put the road, if I'm in Ghana and I want to build a road from, say, a crowd to come out, I get my African brothers in, maybe Somalia or Namibia or Botswana, who are good at that and they can do the road for me, and then, in return, I give them some gold or lithium yeah, that. And then in return, I'll give them some gold or lithium.

Speaker 1: 34:02

That shared infrastructure knowledge is a threat to the Western global order. We see that today with the AES, because there's now no borders against something like Crimea in Virginia, because the border, these artificial borders that were put there in the Congress of Berlin in 1984-85 is an anathema to my emancipation. And so this is why it's important, you know, for Nkrumah on this day, they remember Nkrumah's Vision legacy, right, that we need to, we need to actually fast track it, because we're not free, africa is not united, we're not free. Fast-tracking, because we're not free, africa is not united, we're not free, right? And let me tell you what it means for us, what it means for every African person listening to this podcast, wherever you are, right. So this is not just about history, right, it's about the future of African agency, the future of African sovereignty and the right of Africans and Africa to self-determine. The same future, the West with sister unity, not because Africa is weak, but because united Africa is too powerful to control, because when we're united, like Nkrumah urges to do in his book Africa Unite and I reported to go and buy that book, nkrumah's book, africa Unite, or why Africa Must Unite. Yeah, because Africa will be too powerful to control by Western forces and they cannot manipulate it anymore.

Speaker 1: 35:28

So, in closing, kwame Nkrumah as a result of his guidance by the Most High and the ancestors, including people like Marcus Mosiah Garvey, whose book, the opinion and philosophies of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, influenced Inquilin a lot Inquilin instilled in us the belief that the black man is capable of managing his own affair without Western interference. Inquilin proved that. Yeah, inquilin also told us that we have a right to self-determination what is in our best interest, not in someone else's interest, but what's in our best interest as Ghanaians and as Africans. Also, to end dependency on the West, because that dependency on the West will only lead to slavery again. Yeah, and also to reclaim stolen wealth and dignity by the African, by us controlling the resources on the ground and controlling the wealth for ourselves and using that wealth for our developmental program and our self-mancipation and our trajectory as African people. So this is what Nkrumah instilled in us and taught us.

Speaker 1: 36:49

So, on this day today, when we're celebrating Kwame Nkrumah's legacy and his Earth Day. Let us work together as Africans, no matter where you are, whether you're in ghana, in brazil, in australia, in uh you know uh the salmon islands, in indonesia, in usa, in europe. We're all africans and we've got to work together for the betterment of the good of all africans, because we either think together or we swim together. So I thank you very much for listening to this special edition of Garnet in Focus with myself, kwame, a Garnet writer, broadcaster, entrepreneur and podcaster. Next week, we'll be looking at health. I put it back for the back burner, but we'll be looking at health, looking about prostate cancer, the prostate cancer myth and what you need to know about so-called prostate cancer. So, until then, from myself, kwame, from all the crew here on Ghana In Focus, thank you very much for listening and we'll see you in the next edition of Ghana In Focus.