Well, Nkrumah was a MArxist of sorts. His work "Consciencism" is well worth a
look, s it is, as I recall, an attmept to give African and other 3d world
colonies and ex colonies a line of analysis and argument that was Marxists in
essence while adapted to a form that could perhaps avoid the punishments meted
out to overt socialist politics in the early '60s.
You can find a lot about Nkrumah through the works of the scholar Kofi Hajjor,
who is now at UC Santa Barbara, I think.. Hajjor worked wiht Nkrumah and has a
reliable critical eye to the man's pluses and minuses.
Macdonald Stainsby wrote:
> To Julien: Kwame Nkrumah is a highly under valued Marxist thinker who led
> the Ghanese socialist revolution in 1957... the definition of his I made
> reference to was his invaluable work: "Neo-colonialism: The last stage of
> Imperialism", a sort of addition and build on to Lenins original
> "Imperialism..." by taking the economic relations of African "free sates" to
> their former colonial master states and the other Imperialist countries. If
> memory serves right, it was written after the revolution (It seems logical,
> given Ghana was the first to liberate itself on the African continent).
>
> I have tried hard to find decent sources on Kwame and his thought on the
> internet, and found it lacking. Check your local library, they probably have
> him on the bulk shelves. Final note: His other key concept was a sort of
> Bolivarism for Africa; to Kwame, so long as Imperialism has even a toe hold
> on the continent, no independance can truly be safe for long. Given he was
> overthrown in a CIA orchestration, it seems to hold true. This concept is
> his work: "Africa Must Unite".
>
> Macdonald
>
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