Knowledgeable people around the world have come to appreciate Nkrumah’s greatness.

In 2024, why do we have to convince some blockheads in Ghana? I do understand after the overthrow of the Osagyefo, people of my age group, at the time little children who found delight in jumping up and down the torn-down statues of Osagyefo Those who sang humiliating lyrics about Nkrumah. I really now, with a bit of hindsight, understand that those young kids and even the adults who jubilated after Nkrumah was overthrown. They didn’t know any better.

Even notable participants of the coup, namely Kotoka and the police boss at the time. Kotoka, it later emerged that having realised the enormous mistake they the coup-makers had made, suggested to the other members, including Afrifa to get Nkrumah back to come and continue his stuff and the rest, they say, is history. The policeman whose name has escaped me, he was interviewed by Kwesi Pratt just before he died. He told Kwesi Pratt he realized they’d made a big mistake and that Nkrumah was the best president Ghana had had.

According to historical facts, in 1963, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) reports stated that the rate at which Ghana was industrializing, by 1970, Ghana will be in a situation where they’ll have to import labour into the country to augment the local workforce. UNESCO reported or published this in just and in good faith, but this didn’t go down well with Western neocolonialists.

They argued, _”how can we allow Africans to develop and to produce their own stuff, modernize their superior traditional trade systems, and distribute to their own markets?. Afterall, part reason for the partitioning of the African continent was to create and maintain control over their very existence”

So, in the end, they had to stop the black boy Nkrumah in his storbon tracks. He was proving to be too clever. Moving forward to our times, others outside Ghana have rather come to know and understand something that

is rather too difficult for his, Osagyefo’s own people, Ghanaians to grasp. For this, some of us have decided not to continue with these endless debates about the Osagyefo. If for all these years and with a bit of hindsight, we still have to convince some Ghanaians about Nkrumah’s greatness? No, I have run out of time for such blockedheadedness.

By: Mansa Musa