Nkrumah or the liberator
The following study examines the African decolonization, observing the strange ideological hybrid composed from the mixture of pan-Africanism and Leninism. The personality of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first life-long president, serves as an excellent case study, showing how the European and American education finally led to a detachment from Europe, in an effort of eliminating the colonial stigmata. Eventually, this „African Washington”, as Kwame Nkrumah was called in hagiographical texts, dominated by the European complex of the Revolutionary, developed not a fesible political programme, but an African avatar of the Leninist political theology.
Keywords: African decolonization, Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, pan-Africanism, African Leninism
1.[1] A se vedea Paul Johnson, “Modern times. The world from the twenties to the nineties”, revised edition, Harper Collins Publishers, 1991, pp. 506- 544.
2.[1] Simbolică pentru această dimensiune ideologică militantă este şi antologia în două volume, “ The african liberation reader”, gândită în două volume de Aquino de Bragança şi Imnanuel Wallerstein, Zed Books, London , 1982.
3.[1] Ali Mazrui, “Nkrumah : the leninist czar”, în “Transition, anniversary issue”, 1997, p. 106- 126.
4.[1] O analiză comparată a patologiei politice africane, la Robert H. Jackson, Carl G. Rosberg, “Personal rule: theory and practice in Africa”, în “Comparative politics”, no. 4, july 1984, pp. 421-424.
5.[1] A se vedea Harris Memel-Fotê, “Des ancêtres fondateurs aux Pères de la nation. Introduction a une à anthropologie de la démocratie”, în “Cahiers d’ ètudes africaines”, vol. 31, no.123, 1991, pp. 263- 285.
6.[1] O punere în context a contribuţiei sale ideologice , la Michael W. Williams, “Nkumahism as an ideological embodiment of leftist thought within the african world“, în “Journal of black studies”, vol. 15., no. 1. pp. 117-134
