Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was the first President of the first free nation in Africa, and a founding father of the Pan-Africanist movement.

His dream was to turn Ghana into a modern industrial utopia – a society shaped by the power of science that would serve as a model for the rest of the African continent. At the heart of his plan was the Volta Dam, a hydroelectric power plant that would provide Ghana with all the cheap power that it would need to initiate an industrial revolution.

Rise to Power
In 1935 Kwame Nkruma left Ghana for the United States as a student, receiving a BA from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 1939. During that time, he was elected president of the African Students Organization of America and Canada. He was also exposed to the philosophy and teachings of Marcus Garvey, and the Communist teachings of a US based Trotskyist intellectual cohort. Nkrumah later credited these ideas with teaching him 'how an underground movement worked'.

In 1947, Nkrumah returned to Ghana. Using the political mechanisms he saw there, he returned to Ghana and within two years created the country's first political party. Within two years after that, he was swept into power as the first Black Prime Minister in Africa under the British colonial system.

With the threat of uprisings abroad and financial crisis at home, Britain reluctantly set Ghana free on March 6, 1957. Nkrumah easily won election as the country's first President, and chose a flag with the Black star –inspired by Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line – at its center to represent the new nation.

Nkrumah also launched a series of popular social projects on behalf of his people (who loved him), including The Organization of African Unity (OAU). The OAU was established on 25 May 1963. One year later, Malcolm X established the Organization for African American Unity (OAAU) modeled after Kwame's idea.

The Volta Dam
If Ghana was to become a modern industrial nation, it needed both industry and the power to fuel that industry and provide the continent with its first industrial revolution. The Volta dam was originally the brain child of Britain, but the colonial power was shrinking from the world stage and in doing so, began to withdraw its financial and project support from its former colonies. During his campaign, Nkrumah's platform was founded on the idea of modernization, but without funding for the Volta river project, there was no way that dream could become a reality.

Nkrumah set back out for America to sell the project to then President Eisenhower who took an immediate interest. Ghana at the time was literate, wealthy (as a result of its already profitable cocoa exports, and made a great business prospect for America. And the benefits to America as a young world superpower were two-fold:

First, the manufacturing process for a new metal called aluminum had been discovered, and aluminum ore was abundant in Ghana.

Second, the worlds energy prices were raising, and having access to a cheap source of electricity with which to process aluminum would have greatly increased the profit margins and reduced processing costs for the manufacture of the metal.

President Eisenhower contacted California based Kaiser Aluminum, the world's largest aluminum manufacturer, to exploit the opportunity and fund the project. The assumption that America would mine Ghana's bauxite and use the Volta dam's electricity meant two new large income streams and industries that would assure Nkrumah's dream of an industrial revolution. However, Kaiser Aluminum had different plans. They would only use Ghana's cheap electricity – importing aluminum ore from other places in the world, and then exporting the aluminum back to America. The thought was that if the operation became too profitable, Nkrumah could nationalize the dam project and cut America out completely.

Nkrumah was crushed. The aluminum industry would have done for Ghana what the steel industry had done for the United States. Nkrumah ultimately had to agree to America's terms if he wanted the dam to be built, but as an additional stipulation, he had to raise $30 million on his own.

He sought help from the World Bank, an operation initially set up to fund the recovery effort in post WWII Europe, but which later became a source of funding for the rest of the world. Nkrumah's young new country was now indebted to the World Bank, and the dam became a leash by which the United States could control Nkrumah and exploit the country.

The exploitation of Ghana went into full swing; it became a haven for American and European industrialists who were interested in taking advantage of the country's desire to modernize. White corporations would repeatedly dupe officials into purchasing whatever could be sold, no matter how inappropriate (a Belgian company sold the country snow plows¬. Yea, snow plows. In Africa).

The Volta Dam was completed on January 22, 1966. One month later, Nkrumah was overthrown by a CIA backed coup.

CIA Involvement


On March 11, 1965, almost a year before the coup, William P. Mahoney, the U.S. ambassador to Ghana, participated in a candid discussion in Washington, D.C., with CIA Director John A. McCone and the deputy chief of the CIA's Africa division, whose name has been withheld. Significantly, the Africa division was part of the CIA's directorate of plans (AKA Department of Dirty Tricks) through which the government pursued its covert policies.


According to the record of their meeting (Document 251), topic one was the “Coup d'état Plot, Ghana.” While Mahoney was satisfied that popular opinion was running strongly against Nkrumah and the economy of the country was in a precarious state, he was not convinced that the coup d'état, now being planned by Acting Police Commissioner Harlley and Generals Otu and Ankrah, would necessarily take place. However, he predicted that one way or another Nkrumah would be out within a year. Revealing the depth of embassy knowledge of the plot, Mahoney referred to a recent report which mentioned that the top coup conspirators were scheduled to meet on 10 March at which time they would determine the timing of the coup.
After the coup, Komer wrote a congratulatory assessment to President Eisenhower on March 12, 1966 (Document 260). “The coup in Ghana is another example of a fortuitous windfall. Nkrumah was doing more to undermine our interests than any other black African. In reaction to his strongly pro-Communist leanings, the new military regime is almost pathetically pro-Western.”

John Stockwell, a CIA officer in Africa at the time made the following statement:

“Howard Bane, who was the CIA station chief in Accra, engineered the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah. Inside the CIA it was quite clear. Howard Bane got a double promotion, and was awarded the Intelligence Star for the overthrow of Kwame. The magic of it was that Howard Bane had enough imagination and drive to run this operation without ever documenting what he was doing and there wasn't one shred of paper that was generated that would name the CIA hierarchy as being responsible.“

But in this age of information and Wikileaks, we now know the CIA ties to the destruction of Kwame Nkrumah ran deep: See: Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow

John Stockwell elaborated on the coup in his memoir, In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story:

“The Accra station was encouraged by CIA headquarters to maintain contact with dissidents of the Ghanaian army for the purpose of gathering intelligence on their activities. It was given a generous budget, and maintained intimate contact with the plotters as a coup was hatched. So close was the station's involvement that it was able to coordinate the recovery of some classified Soviet military equipment by the United States as the coup took place.”

According to Stockwell, Banes' sense of initiative knew no bounds. The station even proposed to headquarters through back channels that a squad be on hand at the moment of the coup to storm the [Communist] Chinese embassy, kill everyone inside, steal their secret records, and blow up the building to cover the facts.

The Destruction of Ghana
After the coup, the once wealthy nation of Ghana was milked dry. Kwame fled in exile to Conakry, Guinea never to return to his home country. After 19 years of prosperity under Nkrumah, Ghana slid back into the dark ages.

After the coup, the Kaiser Dam project flourished, continuing to make payments to the World Bank and continuing to yield dividends to its parent corporation. The people of Ghana saw almost none of the benefit. Instead, the people got one military coup after another (7 total). In the 1950s, the world celebrated Nkrumah and Ghana. After the coup, the American propaganda machine painted the country and its leader as corrupt, savage, and unstable. Kwame was called “the Communist Messiah” and Africa was said to be “unable to handle the pressures of modern industrialization. Kwame Nkruma's organization was hijacked by the United Nations, and is now a tool used to expand the program of African exploitation.

But even in exile, Nkrumah continued to write and inspire Pan-Africanists. In Challenge of the Congo he wrote that the political economic situation in the world is one in which a tiny minority of the people grower “richer and richer, while the rest grow poorer and poorer” and elaborated by saying that the situation required world socialism as it was the only remedy, for “as long as capitalism and imperialism go unchecked there will always be exploitation, and an ever-widening gap between the haves and the have-nots, and all the evils of imperialism and neo-colonialism which breed and sustain wars.”

Death and Rememberance

Kwame Nkrumah died of skin cancer in April 1972. He was 62 years old. He was survived by Gokeh, Samia Yarba (who recieved the 2006 European Parliament Award for Journalism), and Sekou Ritz Nkrumah.

Nkrumah was buried in a tomb in the village of his birth, Nkroful, Ghana. While the tomb remains in Nkroful, his remains were transferred to a large national memorial tomb and park in Accra.

Over his lifetime, Nkrumah was awarded honorary doctorates by Lincoln University, Moscow State University; Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt; Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland; Humboldt University in the former East Berlin; and many other universities.

In 2000, he was voted Africa's man of the millennium.

So who was Kwame Nkrumah? He was Africa's Malcolm X. He was a true and benevolent leader and martyr. He was a visionary upon whom the hopes and dreams of a continent and a Black world rested. And he was a victim of the United States of America, capitalism, and the same program devoted to the destruction of the Black race that is still in existence today.

http://www.modernghana.com/news/363669/1/the-cia-kwame-nkrumah-and-the-destruction-of-ghana.html

Thoughts?

We need made in Nigeria!!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLjhmSaw_V8


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zoelife:


Oh it does Bro. Big time. If you know the rules.

Who do you pay to?

WikiLeaks has just revealed secret details of a European Union plan to use military force to curb the influx of migrants from Libya. "The documents lay out a military operation against cross-Mediterranean refugee transport networks and infrastructure," WikiLeaks says. "It details plans to conduct military operations to destroy boats used for transporting migrants and refugees in Libyan territory, thereby preventing them from reaching Europe." WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange discusses the EU’s plan from his place of refuge inside Ecuador’s London embassy.

AMY GOODMAN: We return to our exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. I went to London and spoke to him inside the Ecuadorean Embassy there on Memorial Day.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about the documents you have released around Libya and the immigrants that are trying to escape?

JULIAN ASSANGE: A secret plan was constructed by the defense ministers of Europe, the defense ministers from the various countries. The plan was led by the U.K. and Italy. And that plan, authored on the 13th of May, is what we have released. Now, it calls for a military intervention in Libya to destroy refugee boats before they leave port, from Libya coming to Europe, and also for other attacks on the people who provide the services of conducting the boats, called, of course, in that plan, "people smugglers," and they’re necessary to stop their network.

AMY GOODMAN: You said destroy the boats. What do you mean?

JULIAN ASSANGE: That’s right. Before the refugees get into the boats, destroy the boats. And so, of course, this involves potential infringements of Libyan sovereignty, destroying boats in port.

AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean, "destroying"? Blowing them up?

JULIAN ASSANGE: Blowing them up, sabotaging them. Destroying them through military means is what is specified in the document.

AMY GOODMAN: How would they know if there are people in them?

JULIAN ASSANGE: Well, they may not. They may conduct surveillance operations to detect people. They may be unconcerned with people. The way that they’re talking about the people smugglers in the document is such that you have the impression that the people smugglers themselves would be a military target. The infrastructure, and specifically boats, but their broad infrastructure, also appears to be a military target. So, for example, the systems that repair boats or who are involved in collecting together the refugees, these seem like they would also be military targets.

AMY GOODMAN: And whose documents are these?

JULIAN ASSANGE: This is a classified document from the European Union, from the EU Military Committee. And the EU Military Committee is the defense ministers of the European Union. The document was led by the United Kingdom and Italy. And it will be Italy who is leading the on-the-ground—it will be Italy who is militarily coordinating the on-the-ground efforts.

AMY GOODMAN: And in the documents, the concerns about what this will look like, the so-called optics of the situation?

JULIAN ASSANGE: Yes, there’s a layout for a media information operations at the same time, very significant concern about the optics, about where there’s media scrutiny of the EU for killing people, or false reports of killing people. They say, you know, where the EU has actually killed people in this operation, so they are intending to at least risk killing people in blowing up these boats.

I guess from a—if we now pull back a bit, where is this coming from? Well, it’s no surprise that the U.K. was involved in the draft. Since the 7th, with the new Conservative government here having a majority, we have seen a very strong push along a Conservative agenda against migrants, against pulling out of some parts of the EU, against a retardation of the European Court of Human Rights. From the Italian perspective, they have to deal with the migrants that come across.

Now, this will be the first time that the EU, as a military force—not NATO, but the EU—is engaged in hostilities. So it’s quite—it’s quite significant from the perspective of what the EU is going to look like as a military force. And if you think of Libya, there’s the question of what do these EU nations want with Libya. Well, remember, Libya was largely Hillary’s war. That’s came out, that in fact the Pentagon was pushing against it, Hillary was pushing for it. From the American side, there wasn’t unity in pursuing the prosecution of Libya, because the Pentagon was worried about the post-Gaddafi environment, had that been set up enough, for exactly the same reasons—the exact same lessons we learned in Iraq. Now, there was considerable European push for war in Libya, as well, from Italy, from France and from the United Kingdom, to get at Libyan oil. Deals were done in terms of splits with the Libyan rebels, the splits that Italy would have, the splits that France would have. So, we may also be looking at an excuse to get on to the shoreline of Libya. They will have established a breach of Libyan sovereignty. They will be engaging in destruction of these boats and the people-smuggling operations on Libyan soil.

AMY GOODMAN: And the documents address the Western-backed groups within Libya and what they feel about this?

JULIAN ASSANGE: It has come out publicly, when some versions of this plan have been spoken about in the media. The plan hasn’t come out, but versions of it have been spoken about, and that the groups that the West says is the government of Libya, if you like, they’re those factions around Benghazi. The Libyan foreign minister says that this should not be tolerated, of course. Libyans could not accept the prevention of Libyans seeking refuge being pursued by jihadists. It’s really a very new situation. It’s new in terms of the EU acting as a force in this manner, acting as a force against refugees, against refugee boats, acting as a force, in effect, to assist ISIS. These are people that are being driven out of Libya by jihadists of various factions, including ISIS. So, I find it quite, you know, quite a dangerous precedent. Now, having once established themselves on the northern shore of Libya, there’s a question about then what happens. Presumably, EU troops or EU agents or EU warships on the shore of Libya are going to receive some kind of resistance occasionally, and they will meet that resistance. And that could then well snowball into an invasion of Libya. And that may—I must speculate that that may be part of the vision.

http://m.democracynow.org/stories/15247

Why aren't more people watching this and commenting, this is life and death. Very important information.

zoelife:

The CHANGE you desire started a long, long time ago. Only Social media propaganda didn't let you see it.
Buhari is only coming in to build on that Change. Pray for him, wish him luck.

Prayer doesnt work...

cap28:


Are you aware of the fact that all of those countries were rebuilt with US money under what was called the Marshall Plan after the second world war. Has any country in Africa ever been developed by an external power?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoMJIXhfy64

thoth:

How would you feel if by "Chance" Osibanjo becomes the president of Nigeria ?
What sort of policies would you expect of him ?
I hope you can give sincere answers to the above questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoMJIXhfy64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoMJIXhfy64

Wake up to what is going on. What do you think about this?

ghostofsparta:
@ GooseBaba
@ cold
@ Plaetton
@ rinrin23
@ OlaoChi
@ dolemite
@ thehomer
@ igbo2011

Rather than engaging and indulging our lost, mentally enslaved and misguided NL fellows in their religious delusion (Gatiano is a nutjob and you guys really engaged whoever he is) why don't we amass our efforts and collect our limited resources together in order to channel them into things that will definitely enlighten the upcoming and growing young generation in our society. I mean for instance I used to like Marvel, DC, Valiant, DarkHorse and Image comics until I outgrew it all. But those books made me discovered my creative and artistic skills, I am willing to draw up stories that conforms with our Afrikaness and ATR believe system but to sustain its longevity would require adequate support not limited to funding and intellectual input. This is a project I've been dreaming about for years. Now it's out of the can, over to you guys.

Please I want to support!! Check out this thread I made for African cartoons, maybe you can talk to one of the owners of these to get more ideas and advice.

https://www.nairaland.com/2008828/where-some-cartoons-animations-made

anonymous6:


I'm Nigerian American and Nigerians for the most part don't worship Obama, I don't his allegiance is to America. The west already have troops in two African countries, they tried in Nigeria but Nigeria refused. In the end of the day everybody is entitled to their opinions, let's agree to disagree here.

This is shat America and Britain are doing to Afghanistan, the only reason they don't do it to us is because we are weala dn they just give us weapons and have us kill each other. I am warning you...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzAH0dmBISI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEOfCIoDfbg

This is what America does to Africa.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6kPY7QC3M

anonymous6:

So I think you are over hyping and underestimating Nigerians, based on the links for the most part africans are awake but they can still congratulate a powerless figure head royal family all they want the same way they congratulate Nollywood stars Like Omotola or Genevieve when they make when progress higher in the careers or How Aliko Dangote being a Black Nigerian Billionaire makes them proud. Personally I get the issues you are trying to address but stop making up conspiracy theories and concluding Africans are naive because some nigerians on a nairaland thread about kate and williams are simply congratulating them on their new baby girl being born, ridiculous.

The fact that Africans don't understand that we are at war with Europeans and have been for centruries. Also we are at war with Arabs too is the fact that we are always losing. We are too welcoming and inviting to people who don't want us to succeed.

I am Nigerian but I believe many Nigerians and Africans are very naive. I was on facebook and they were all worshiping Barack Obama but they don't realize that Obama is destroying Africa an is going to recolonize Africa. We don't think outside the box and analyze. We are very simple minded people and this will lead to our demise.

See how you call me a conspiracy theorist? Many Nigerians call me this. When the west has permanent troops i Africa then you will understand what I am saying now.

thoth:
I know Muslims do Bleep up a lot, But don't let that force you to throw all in the same bag. Idi Amin throughout his reign had his people's interest at heart, fought for it and for the first time used Uganda's resources for Uganda. He was not pro Palestinian because of religious beliefs, he was pro Palestinian because he considered creation of Israel on Palestinian Land a grave injustice to Humanity. Most Europeans are pro Palestinian , does that make them Muslim ? Saudi Arabia is anti Palestinian does that make them Christians ? On these sort of issues we should always try to be objective.

Africans were there first, Arabs are invaders!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7q_1pT08Zw

"Your oppressor is your master, your standard, you ideal"

Why do Africans stride to be accepted by westerners. We have a lave mentality. Even though these Nigerians will serve the interests of England which include doing imperialism through economics, politics, media or military to Africa. We are very naive people, look what Obama is doing to Africa now. America, Britain, France, Israel are not friends to Africa!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsmo7_PBm74


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWd_jlFtUx8

anonymous6:


You have some points and I'm not hyping will and Kate, they are like other couples out there but because of their royal connection they get special attention and treatment, which is they way the world is but Why would Jewish people celebrate hitler in the first place? It's the same way africans are not celebrating their old colonizers, which is not will and Kate, so this has nothing to do with William and Kate having their second child. There's nothing wrong in you not congratulating them but don't put down Africans doing that and equate it to black africans being down. I don't agree with past things Europeans did to africans but this has nothing to do with William and Kate new born baby. Create a new topic about what you are trying to bring up but don't do that in a thread like this one that has nothing to do with the topics your bringing up.

The new child will be the new face of imperialism for Europeans to Africa. The goal is to be an African without any African in it. To permanently take our lands and have us living in reservations like Native Americans or Aboriginals. Africans need to wake up, these are not our friends. They want us dead look what they are doing to African Americans in America. Wake up to the world we live in stop being so naive.

http://www.houseofknowledge.org.uk/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmu_F92nB4U

anonymous6:


lol, there is nothing wrong in congratulating William and Kate in their new born baby girl

Jewish people would not congradulate Adolf Hitler's grandchild. The Armenians wouldn't do it to Ottoman leadership. But us stock holm syndrome weak minded slave thinking Global Africans would. This is why we are in our situation. The way we think and see the world.

EdCure:
They are most welcome.

Nigerians and Africans in genera and very naive and too welcoming. I guess we don't learn from our history...

Horus:


He is a Republican, certainly a house negro

AAinEqGuinea:

For the most part, they're all puppets

True they are all puppets Democrats and Republicans.

This is cool but what are they ding for Africa or global African people around the world? We need to rethink what success is.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnOc9xBqHE4

cooljude:
I disagree with your allegation op. European can do more to save lives but saying that they are sinking boats probably by shooting at them is not completely true. Firstly, those smugglers overload the boats with people without the right safety equipment and precaution. Secondly, they try to navigate at Night without correct equipment knowing fully well that the sea gets rougher at Night. Most smugglers don't really care about their passengers. Except you have a clear factual evidence.

How are Europeans ssving Africa?

I hope you all are not Africans. Look what those wicked "royal" people did to Africa for hundreds of years. We have Stockholm syndrome!

While Africans build churches.

African people must gain power!!

Is he a house negro or field Negro?

thoth:
This is just the beginning.

What do you think is next?

GenBuhari:
[size=18pt]In case anybody missed it in my earlier post,
I repeat:

Italy is deliberately sinking African migrant boats and drowning Africans.
Of course they always ensure that they rescue a few in front of their news cameras, whilst hundreds are allowed to drown.

These African migrant boats always manage to easily survive thousands of miles of rough sea only to repeatedly mysteriously sink in the last half a kilometre of calm coastal waters of Italy.

This point was made by president of the Gambia in his address to the last UN General Assembly.
Yet nothing has been done to stop the genocide.[/size]

How do they sink it. Also do u have video of the president of Gambia sayibg that?

GenBuhari:
The problem is not that Africans are cowards or weak or unwilling to fight or protect themselves. African man is strong and brave and will fight to protect his land and family.

The problem which Africa is suffering from, is that we suffer from inferiority complex as a result of hundreds of years of miseducation by the colonialists and continued brainwashing from neocolonialism activities using white man's stooges who white man install as our leaders.

The inferiority complex of African is clearly demonstrated by the response to this thread.

Thread that was meant to discuss a racist cartoon, turned into Africans more or less saying racism is justified even when they were informed that Italians are deliberately sinking and drowning African migrants, it did not matter because it appears that Africans' self esteem and inferiority complex is such that genocide against us by them is not even worth condemning.

Africans have Stockholm syndrome

In America this is how they treat people of African descent. What do you think?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2TBdA_xjp8

People have been rioting because of this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTW96gz984A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuY7w1WiBPg

People protest around America in solidarity


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG3vOaWSTQ4

Self hate low self esteem inferiority complex stockholm syndrome

Also capitalism money has power.

cap28:
That cartoon is the most disgusting thing I've seen in a long time and yes, its done to us because the white western media know that we are powerless (at the moment).
Would any western cartoonist have the balls to depict jews in a gas chamber and make it into some kind of joke?

How do we gain power?

GenBuhari:
igbo2011 cap28 should comment

Why are Africans so weak to allow this to happen. What will we do about it? Nothing we are cowards with Stockholm syndrome. We won't boycott France wr will only buy from France Italy and western Europe. The people who have historically oppressed us. We won't hurt them financially or physically we will help them further their agenda against us.

https://www.nairaland.com/1932006/why-african-men-weak