The Deputy Chair of the African Union (AU), Kwesi Quartey, says Dr. Kwame Nkrumah still lives through his ideas and teachings.
"Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's name would live forever because his ideas and teachings remain very much alive and relevant.
Ambassador Quartey said this, when he launched a book entitled, "Death of an Empire-Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and Africa".
He described Dr. Nkrumah as an extra-ordinary man, who had profound influence on Ghana and Africa.
"To him, African Unity was the most natural thing after independence," said the AU Deputy Chair.
He praised Dr. Nkrumah for his visionary ideas such as his passion for the eradication of illiteracy and added that although he was physically no more present, Dr. Nkrumah had transformed into an idea that was very relevant in present times.
Mr. Ivor Agyeman-Duah, Editor of the book, said the history of nations, often held different interpretations for different people.
He said it was thus important to keep revisiting such history, in order to have better insight into events of that nature.
The nine chapter and 137 page book, has as its author, the late Kwame Sanas-Poku Jantuah, an apostle of Ghana's first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
He was a member of his All African Cabinet, and for years served as Ambassador to France, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
A participant and witness in the history of the transition from Gold Coast to Ghana, Jantuah who died in 2011 at the age of 89, reflected and interpreted some of the major events of the 1950s and 60s, as well as foreign policy formulation.
The book also reflected on Ghana's fourth republic and developments on the African continent since.
It is published by Digi Books Ghana Ltd.
Source: GNA
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Adam died. Moses died. Jesus died. Ghandi died. Yet all these icons live forever by the ressurecting power of our minds and hearts. Nkrumah is dead. But "Nkrumaism" or "Africanism" will be with us for generations. A True Prophet of the True Living God. May his ideas live forever in our hearts and minds. Jesus died for me.
LOOK AT HIM? WAS YOUR FATHER ABLE TO DO WHAT HE DID? IF YOUR FATHER HAD BEEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY LIKE NKRUMAH HE WOULD HAVE APPOINTED FAMILY MEMBERS INTO POSITIONS AND JUSTIFY THAT THEY POSSESS THE NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS, YOUR FATHER WOULD HAVE BUILT UNIVERSITY IN HIS HOME TOWN THOUGH NOT WORTHWILE,YOUR FATHER WILL HAVE CHANGED THE INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS TO 4TH AUGUST TO HONOUR HIS FATHER AND UNCLES SOME OF WHICH DO NOT DESERVE TO BE HONOURED, PUT HIS RELATIVES INTO POSITIONS TO AMASS WEALTH LIKE YOUR CURRENT PRESIDENT AND KUFOUR AND MAHAMA DID AND DOING.NKRUMAH DID SEEK TO GLORIFY HIMSELF BUT PUNISHED THOSE WHO DID NOT WANT AFRICA AND GHANA TO GROW AT THEIR OWN GOOD. HE NEED TO BE REMEMBERED PERFECTLY. SHAME TO YOUR WRITE UP FULL OF DISTORTIONS AND UNTRUTH.YOUR NPP PARTY ALLOWED CIA AND WESTERN IMPERIALISTS PEOPLE TO OVERTHROW NKRUMAH FOR THEIR SELFISH GAINS. NOW AFRICA IS SUFFERING BECAUSE OF YOUR PART GREEDY STANDS. ONLY NKRUMAHIST LEADER IN AFRICA IS MUGABEBE OF ZIMBABWE WHO HAS SOME ELEMENTS OF OSAGYEFO IN HIM
Perhaps the only person/leader to have benefited from a coup d'etat is Dr. Nkrumah. Looking at history unfolding these days Nkrumah was saved by the last bell, which was the coup. If you consider that Ghana was on the way to where Zimbabwe is now, would these socialist boys have been saying what they are saying now if the country had collapsed under Nkrumah, which was imminent at the time of his overthrow? The African Union as a project was a conduit for his political ambition of becoming African President. Even then, like his treatment of Ghana's economy, no efficient and effective planning went into it but rather the usual socialist legacy of economic shortsightedness. Africa is poor because as the first post colonial president of Africa Sub of The Sahara Nkrumah did not appreciate economics but rather socialist political propaganda. This made the new presidents of most countries follow his footsteps, to the detriment of those countries as well. It is high time we shake ourselves from ignorance of worshiping an individual who aborted the hopes of post colonial Africa and face the realities of life. You can be the AU chair, the deputy or messenger, but the truth is that this debate on Nkrumah is meaninglesss. The only date worth celebrating in Ghana is 6th March. In short, Nkrumah was saved from total disgrace of watching Ghana collapse by the coup d'etat.