Why Nkrumah Is The Founder Of Modern Ghana

Nkrumaists must not continue to waste their energies rebutting the intellectually dishonest argument by today's progeny of Dr. J. B. Danquah & Co - who now seek to rewrite our history.  What matters is that the vast majority of people of African descent whose DNA and cultural roots lie in the continent, regard Nkrumah as the Pan-Africanist giant who founded modern Ghana. Full stop.

The plain truth, is that  Dr. J. B. Danquah & Co were rabid tribal-supremacists, who wanted the independent state that would emerge after the departure of the British colonialists, to be a federation made up of pre-colonial tribal entities  -  and therefore worked secretly with the British occupiers of our Motherland for that end: with the excuse that Nkrumah was a closet communist who had to be unmasked. That is a fact.

Yes,  it is also a fact that it was Paa Grant who took the initiative of  asking Dr. J. B. Danquah and  a number of other prominent individuals in the Gold Coast, to form a political grouping that would fight for independence  from Britain, which he would  entirely fund himself. (Incidentally, who has ever heard any of Paa Grant's family members claiming that he founded Ghana - because he bankrolled his own idea that we had to rid ourselves of the greedy British colonialist exploiters of the Gold Coast and benefit from our own rich natural resources, ourselves, that way? But I digress.)

However, being ruthless capitalists,  who wanted to eat their cake and still have it, they had to deal with the huge problem of being too busy making money to leave their lucrative jobs for such a daunting proposition. They therefore decided to take  Ako Adjei's advice, and asked Paa Grant to send Nkrumah money (£100), to pay for his boat passage back home - for him to be the poor-monkey-dey-work, slaving for super-wealthy-baboons-to-chop-nyafu-nyafu.

The idea was that when he arrived in the Gold Coast,  Nkrumah would embark on the full-time  nationwide campaigning, which they all knew was needed to conscientise the masses and get them to back the fight to  free the Gold Coast from  the  British colonialists who had occupied its  landmass.They would then doubtless  benefit from Nkrumah's hard work - and end up wielding perpetual power  and enjoying the low-hanging-fruits of their dream of an elitist post-independence federation of the pre-colonial tribal entities that made up the Gold Coast colony.

Above all, what revisionists like Dr. Kingsley Nyarko and his fellow-travellers deliberately forget, is that Dr. J. B. Danquah & Co were lackeys of the British colonialists and well-paid agents of Western imperialism. How can such sell-out-politicians be nationalist founders of modern Ghana? Haaba.

Kwame Nkrumah is regarded by Posterity, and progressive Blacks worldwide, as the founder of modern Ghana, because  it was his bold vision of a new and modern African unitary nation-state, in which one could rise to the top, by dint of hard work,  in a meritocratic society regardless of class, tribe or religion,  which the masses voted massively for, in the crucial elections of 1951, 1954 and 1956. The masses were no fools -  inherited privilege, as we all know, is the greatest enemy of meritocracy.

That is why yesteryear's  tribal-supremacist pre-independence-era politicians (whose political progeny most of today's vile revisionists are, incidentally), by definition, could never have founded Ghana, the modern multi-ethnic, unitary African  nation-state, whose citizens shared a common destiny. Nkrumah's competing  nationalist vision of a unitary nation-state eventually won out in the end, after independence in March 1957. Nkrumah is the founder of modern Ghana for that reason. And we thank God for that.

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