African Revolutionary Writers, Part 10 Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah 1909 - 1972 Kwame Nkrumah is one of the very greatest of the African Revolutionary writers; also independence leader and first democratic president of his country, Ghana, and famous advocate of African unity. Of the two Nkrumah downloads linked below, the first covers major parts of his “Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism”. At the end of this revolutionary book Nkrumah wrote: “I have set out the argument for African unity and have explained how this unity would destroy neo-colonialism in Africa. In later chapters I have explained how strong is the world position of those who profit from neo-colonialism. Nevertheless, African unity is something which is within the grasp of the African people. The foreign firms who exploit our resources long ago saw the strength to be gained from acting on a Pan-African scale. By means of interlocking directorships, cross-shareholdings and other devices, groups of apparently different companies have formed, in fact, one enormous capitalist monopoly. The only effective way to challenge this economic empire and to recover possession of our heritage, is for us also to act on a Pan-African basis, through a Union Government.” In the year following the publication of the book, and while he was on a visit to China and Vietnam, Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown as President of Ghana in a military coup d’état organised by the US Central Intelligence Agency. In 1967 Nkrumah spoke at a seminar in Cairo, Egypt, in strong opposition to the “Negritude” philosophy of Leopold Senghor, and also the phony false-flag product called “African Socialism”* (somewhat like the situation today in South Africa with the idea of a "Workers' Party" that is not a communist party). The second downloadable item is the transcript of this decisive speech. Kwame Nkrumah remains the greatest of the advocates of revolutionary Pan-African unity against Imperialism. This is the last part of our course on African Revolutionary Writers. There will be one more item. We have brought out a lot of powerful, original, African Revolutionary Writing; but there is other writing that we were not able to find in suitable electronic form (i.e. as text files or HTML pages). The following is a list of the texts that were sought but not found, and some which were requested but not found. These will all continue to be sought until the next publication of the African Revolutionary Writers series, on a parallel forum to this one, in 2011.
Name Dates Sought-after Text Date Paul Robeson 1898 – 1976 Here I Stand 1958 WEB Du Bois 1868 – 1963 Africa in Battle Against Colonialism, (and/or The World and Africa , 1946) 1960 Oginga Odinga 1911 – 1994 Not Yet Uhuru 1967 Malcolm X 1925 – 1965 By Any Means Necessary 1970 Eduardo Mondlane 1920 – 1969 The Struggle for Mozambique 1969 Agostinho Neto 1922 – 1979 Sacred Hope 1974 Samora Machel 1933 – 1986 Sowing the Seeds of Revolution 1974 Ousmane Sembene 1923 – 2007 God’s Bits of Wood 1960 Ayi Kwei Armah 1939 - The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born 1968 Alex La Guma 1925 – 1985 In the Fog of the Season’s End 1972 Ngugi wa Thiong’o 1938 - Homecoming, Petals of Blood &c 1972 Bantu Stephen Biko 1946 – 1977 I Write What I Like 1978 Cheikh Anta Diop 1923 – 1986 Civilisation or Barbarism* 1981 Albert Memmi 1920 - Coloniser and colonised 1991 Henry Winston 1911 – 1986 Strategy for a Black Agenda 1973 Ruth First 1925 – 1982 Mozambican Miner: Proletarian and Peasant 1983 Sékou Touré 1922 – 1984 Strategy and tactics of the revolution 1978 Julius Nyerere 1922 – 1999 Freedom and Development 1974 Thomas Sankara 1949 – 1987 Thomas Sankara Speaks 1987 A Mohamed Babu 1924 – 1996 Anton Lembede 1914 – 1947 Mehdi Ben Barka 1920 – 1965 Gamal Abdel Nasser 1918 – 1970 Lúcio Lara ? If you have electronic copies of any of these texts, please send them to [email protected]. Please download and read the text via this link:Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-colonialism, 1965, Compilation (10643 words)Nkrumah, African Socialism Revisited, 1967 (2587 words) Further reading:Walter Rodney, Colonialism, System for Underdeveloping Africa, 1973, 1973 (34211 words) *From the time of Eduard Bernstein with his 1899 book “Evolutionary Socialism”, and of Rosa Luxemburg’s classic 1900 response to Bernstein, “Reform or Revolution?”, the same question has been repeated. In the history of the struggle for liberation from colonialism in Africa, the question “Reform or Revolution?” was again put. To sound better and to deceive the people more easily, a false kind of “Socialism”, not very different from Bernstein’s kind, was dressed up as “African Socialism” and was then widely deployed as a smokescreen for neo-colonialism from soon after the dawn of African Independence in the 1950s and 1960s, onwards. -- Posted By DomzaNet to Communist University on 11/03/2010 10:10:00 AM -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
