Nkrumah Always Acted To Protect The National Interest And Sought The Well-Being Of Ordinary People - Whiles His Detractors Did The Opposite

Now that I am an old man, when I look back over the years, it amazes me that I used to get so worked up whenever Nkrumah's detractors took to denigrating that great pan-African hero and giant African nationalist warrior. What a fool I was.

Nkrumah's place in  the Pantheon of the 20th century's greatest leaders is already secure after all - so why fret when he is abused and dishonoured by those who are not discerning enough to understand the machinations of the British colonialists and their fifth-columnist-traitors in the midst of Gold Coasters during that era of our struggle to become a free people: and during the period in the immediate aftermath of our independence right up to the great Nkrumah's overthrow in 1966?

The question is:  If today many of Nkrumah's most innovative ideas and his view of the nature of society best suited to us as modern and non-tribalistic Africans, which had to evolve over time in our homeland Ghana, has become attractive again to many in this nation, why should one be angered when lesser men and women insult him? No worries. Full stop.

Above all,  who can deny that most of Nkrumah's opponents were quislings on the payrolls of Western intelligence agencies?

Do declassified documents focused on Nkrumah released  by the U.S. State Department, the U.S. National Security Council and CIA covering the tenures of presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, not clearly show that President Nkrumah's government was  deliberately targeted and destabilised by the West?

And was their strategy not ultimately to make President Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP) government  unpopular with the masses, and thus ensure its eventual removal from power by the local paid agents of the Western intelligence agencies  in Ghana - because the leaders of the West feared that Nkrumah would make ordinary Africans become politically conscious, and acutely aware of the exploitative and iniquitous international system then in place: and demand an end to the neocolonialist global system, and, worst of all, in their view,  agitate for it to be replaced  with intra-African trade anchored on an African common market?

No matter how much the revisionist progeny of yesteryear's lackeys of Western imperialism try to belittle the pivotal role Nkrumah (who unlike his opponents believed in meritocracy not inherited privilege) played in hastening the departure of the British occupiers of the Gold Coast when he returned from the UK in 1947 to become the general secretary of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) - by seeking to recreate the history of the period leading up to  our nation successfully ending British occupation and the ordinary people of this country  regaining sovereign power and the right to vote for their own leaders to govern their nation - this country will always be referred to as Nkrumah's Ghana.

Finally, Nkrumah - unlike so many of the Ghanaian political leaders we have seen since his overthrow in 1966 -  had no hidden wealth-creation agenda to amass wealth by stealth for himself at the expense of ordinary people.  Indeed, right up till the day he was overthrown, he  always acted to protect the national interest at all material times, and, above all, sought to promote the welfare of ordinary people throughout his years in power.

His opponents on the other hand were the exact opposite, alas - and will always be remembered by discerning folk for their not-so-well-hidden Kokofu-football-politricks and tribal-supremacist agenda, as well as for being super-quislings who were elitists that despised ordinary people - whom those sly beneficiaries of inherited privilege wanted to lord it over till the very end of time: by replacing British colonial rule with a federation made of  the precolonial tribal entities dominated permanently by the descendants of the pre-colonial ruling elites.
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