The man Kwame Nkrumah was the greatest idealist Africans could have ever asked for.Nkrumah, a pan-Africanist and Marxist–Leninist served as Prime Minister of the Ghana ofrom 1952 until 1960.Nkrumah came up with so many ideas for the benefit of Africa and these ideas were termed Nkrumaism.Nkrumaism is a syncretic ideology which blends different sources together while not necessarily borrowing their entire frameworks. In his work, Nkrumah blended different sources from within Africa, the canon of Western philosophy, and black intellectuals in North America and Europe, like Marcus Garvey and George Padmore. Particularly important in founding this ideology were his study and meetings with C.L.R. James , W.E.B. Dubois , and Father Divine .
Like other African political ideologies at the time, the central focus of Nkrumaism was on
decolonization across Africa. The central contention of Nkrumaism was that African countries, united with one another, needed to adopt socialist political structures which were consistent with the traditional African values of egalitarianism. In Nkrumah's idealized view, pre-colonial African societies did not have individual ownership or class structures, but instead were organized largely around the value of what Nkrumah called "communalism.
Nkrumah found solutions for all problems of africa brought by colonialism and when all the liberated countries sat in Addis Ababa in May 1963 he made a concluding speech saying " We must live here with one nation, one army, one currency and as one people, i dont know ehre the capital will be, whether in Leopoldville or Bangui, the other leaders might differ but we need to have one voice and one africa."
Africa misses Nkrumah because we are still suffering from the actions and influence of the conceptual west. Nkrumaism is africa's only way out. Africa must be great again.
