A SOCIAL REVOLUTIONALIST

KWAME NKRUMAH'S POLITCAL THOUGHTS.

KWAME NKRUMAH WAS A SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONIST WHO FOUGHT WITH HIS LIFE TO SECURE FREEDOM FOR THE WHOLE OF AFRICA. HIS PAN-AFRICAN NATIONALISM AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONSCIENCISM MARKS HIM OUT FROM HIS CONTEMPORARY POLTICAL THEORISTS. A GHANAIAN BY ORIGIN AND AN AMERICAN BY INTELLECTUAL FORMATION, A FORMATION THAT HE LAMENTED TO BE ENSCHACKLING FOR THE AFRICAN, NKRUMAH GAVE IN ALL IN HIS POWER FOR THE TOTAL LIBERIATION OF AFRICA, NOT ONLY FROM COLONIALISM BUT ALSO FROM NEO-COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM. HIS THEORIES EMBRACED THREE INTER-RELATED PHASES: THE THEORY OF LIBERATION. PAN-AFRICANISAM AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONSCIENCISM. IN THIS EXPOSE THEREFOR, I AM SET TO X-RAY THESE DORPORA AND FROM THEREIN DISCOVER NKRUMAH'S CONVICTIONS AS TO THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE.

KWAME NKRUMAH'S POLITICAL THOGHTS:
1. THE THEORY OF LIBERATION

KWAME NKRUMAH, IN HIS BOOK."TOWARDS COLONIAL FREEDOM". JUST LIKE THE MARXIST PREDICTION, IDENTIFIED THE ELEMRNTS OF COLONIALISM, WHICH HAS WITHIN IT. ITS OWN SEED OF DESTRUCTION. THE INTELLIGENSIA, NKRUMAH MAINTAINED ARE THOSE AFRICAN SONS DRAWN FROM THE FAMILIES OF CHIEFS AND FROM THE "MONEYED" SECTION OF THE POPULATIOOPN, WHO ARE EDUCATED IN WESTERN IDEOLOGY. THESE PROVID ALINK BETWEEN THE COLONIAL POWER AND THE MASSES. SO, THE MONOPOLY AND CONTROL OF DAPITAL BY THE COLONIAL LORDS AGAINST THE AFRICANS ACCELERATES THE DESIRE FOR RECOLOLT AMONMG THE COLONIZES INTELLIGENTSIA. AS CAPITAL IS CONTINUOUSLY PUMPED INTO THE COLONIES, EXPLOTATION INCREASES AND THE ECONOMIC SUBJUGATION OF THE COLONIES LEADS TO UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPITALIST CONTRIES AND THE ROFE BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR IS FURTHER STRRNTHENED. THIS WIILL INEVITABLY LEAD TO WAR.

THIS ENCOURAGES NKRUMQAH INTO MAPPING OUT PLANS TOWARDS THE LIBERATRION OF AFRICAN FROM THEIR COLONIAL SUBGATION. THE FIRST AND ESSENTIAL STEP IS THE ORGANISATION AND MOBLIZATION OF LABOUR AND YOUTH, MASS POLITCAL EDUCATION AND TRAINIG AND EMPLOYING FRON THE BEST MANPOWER WE HAVE IN YOUTHS. THESE SHOULD BE MADE TO KNOW WHO THE ENEMY IS AND HIS STATEGIES TO BRING THE AFRICAN POPULACE UNDER PERPETRUAL SERVITUDE. THESE LIBERATION MOVEMENTS FORMED, COULD RALIZE THEIER AIMS THROUGH FERE PRESS AND ANTI-COLONIAL SREUGGLES AND A TRUE AFRICAN CONSCIOSNESS SHOULD BE AWAKEND. WHAT THESE LIBERATION MOVEMENTS ASPIRE TO IS TOTAL FREEDOM, WHCH IS EXPRESEXD IN POLICAL FRESSDOM AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION. THESE CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED THROUGH A CONCERTERD EFFORT OF THE ENTIRE CONTINEENT.

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