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Feature Article of Friday, 30 May 2014 Columnist: Kwarteng, Francis

Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah’s ScientificThinkingIn 2002, under the auspices of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair Association, the PanAfricanBooksellers Association, the African Publishers Network, Book Development Councils, African Writers’Association, Library Associations, and the PanAfrican Book Booksellers Association included KwameNkrumah’s “Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah” in its comprehensive final list of “Africa’s100 Best Books of the 20th Century.” It should be stressed here that the entire selection process washighly competitive. Moreover, members of the international jury tasked to vet this collection of highlyinfluential writings apiece and to approve their inclusion in the final list, arguably, represented some ofthe world’s finest, most accomplished, and authoritative thinkers in their chosen fields of expertise.

As a matter of fact, the Information Services of Columbia Univeristy Library has this to say inconnection with the rigorous selection process: “Nominations were made based on the basis that the bookhas had a powerful, important or affecting influence on the nominator, as an individual, or on society.”Nevertheless, there are many around the world who had equally wished Nkrumah’s “Consciencism:Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization,” one of his wellknown scholarly works as well as of hismost widelyread masterpieces, had made the final list as well, given that “Consciencism” represents oneof the most sophisticated philosophical works ever penned by a renowned and respected 20thCenturythinker and scholar.

Quite apart from Nkrumah’s “Consciencism,” Attoh Ahum’s “The Gold Coast Nation and NationalConsciousness” and Joseph E. CaselyHayford’s “Ethiopia Unbound” are consciously transformative?philosophically, culturally, and ideologically?as far as their cumulative intellectual seminality goes.Likewise, Dr. Theophile Obenga, one of the world’s leading Egyptologists, historians, philosophers, andlinguists, has described “Consciencism” as a powerful, sophisticated philosophical treatise on Africanpsychophysical decolonization! But, generally, what is usually slurred over in the comprehensivevaluation?by way of exegesis?of Nkrumah’s corpus of written works by his enemies and supportersalike, in the areas of theory and practice, more importantly, is their intellectual or analytic failure torecognize the scientific infrastructure upon which Nkrumah’s ideas are raised.

There is, therefore, a critical exegetical diastema in an otherwise interpretative continuum supposedlyenjoyed by the extensive library of Nkrumah’s revolutionary ideas, a fundamental question eloquentlyand vigorously raised and pursued by the polymathic Dr Kofi Kissi Dompere, a wellrespectedmathematician, economist, philosopher, statistician, historian, business analyst, radio programmer/host(WPFW Radio, 89.3 FM), operations researcher, and prolific author in the American Academy.Moreover, this view of scientific singularity presumptively secreted in the interpretive continuum of thefarreaching library of Nkrumah’s provocative ideas enjoys ample support from the material locationalityof his massive industrialization projects as well as from his progressive attempts at extenuating humansuffering.

That made him, Kwame Nkrumah, an intellectual sophisticate and a redoubtable critical thinker to reckonwith. That is, Nkrumah was, as it were, admittedly, a rationalist, empiricist, and pragmatist. What ismore, much like the wideranging revolutionary ideas of Cheikh Anta Diop’s, Henri Poincare’s,Theophile Obenga’s, Martin Bernal’s, Albert Einstein’s, Molefi Kete Asante’s, Louis Leakey’s, WEB Du

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Bois’s, the experimental ideas of Kwame Nkrumah’s have begun to gain intellectual currency, to acquireglobal exegetical character, as well as to incur the scientific approbation of investigators. Thus, KwameNkrumah pushed his thinking beyond the gibbous heliopause of theorizing to accommodate the galacticsociopolitical exigencies of praxis, the latter of which his practical legacy articulately represents today,ideally, both in the corporeality of infrastructure, namely, public capital, as well as in the ethereality ofinnovative ideas and institutions.

This is not surprising, however, for, Nkrumah, a highlygifted, brilliant, and innovative Africanphilosopherpresident, came from an influential stemma of profound thinkers, of which the polymathicImhotep easily comes to mind (See Robert Bauval’s and Thomas Brophy’s “Imhotep the African:Architect of the Cosmos”; Molefi Kete Asante’s “The Egyptian Philosophers: Ancient African Voicesfrom Imhotep to Akhenaten”; Theophile Obenga’s “African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period: 2780330BC”). Asante writes in this connection: “Nkrumah is the single most important African politician of thepast century. Almost all ideas that are vetted by contemporary leaders have appeared in Nkrumah’swriting. He is the seminal African political philosopher.” In fact, the epistemological strength ofNkrumah’s intellectual sociality and philosophical culturalilty are incontestable hallmarks of a truegenius.

Granted, these ideas Asante implicitly refers to are not merely packageinsert questions of epistemology,culture, scientific socialism, political spirituality (decolonization of the African mind), but also ofscience, technology, development economics, modernization, humanism, political economy, andindustrialization of Africa. Yet, Asante’s precise synthesis invites another matricial preference from theepistemological coordinategeometry of Nkrumah’s innovative ideas, which is that of the spatiallocational cognate of Nkrumah’s scientific philosophizing, the science or politics of pragmatism, that is.

Clearly, the logical carrefour of theory and praxis is inhumed in the formulaic instruments of rigorousscientific philosophization and experimentation, two ideas Dr. Dompere explores in his dynamic critiqueof “Consciencism,” though, much unlike Asante’s vigorous critique of Du Boisian “doubleconsciousness” via the epistemological institutionalization of the Theory of Afrocentricity or via thedethronement of Newtonian mechanics or Aristotelian physics (classical physics) by way of the provenexperimental majesty of quantum and relativistic physics. The book “Consciencism” is so influential asto cause Lang T.K.A. Nubour, an author, to reissue an abridged version of it, titled “The Mind ofKwame Nkrumah: Manual for the Study of Consciencism,” as the Center for Consciencist Studies andAnalysis (CENCSA) notes:

“Certainly a new wind is blowing all over Africa. The spirit of Kwame Nkrumah is awakened. Thisrenewed presence is acknowledged across the continents. Not only are academicians and intellectualsreviving their interest in Kwame Nkrumah. They have also questioned and are questioning the decades ofneglect in the study of the man. Agitations are on foot at centers of learning to incorporate such studiesinto the curriculum of university studies in Africa. The agitations do not resist the continued studies ofWestern philosophers like Thales, Plato, and others. They make a just and positive demand that KwameNkrumah be added to them.”

It must be further recalled that Nkrumah’s revolutionary ideas, of which his philosophical“consciencism” cannot be glossed over for either political expediency or historical amnesia, played theirpart in dismantling Apartheid and decolonizing the continent, as testified to by Mr. Enoch Ampofo, whostood in for the National Heritage Council of South Africa and Ingwe Mabalabala Holdings,organizations on whose behalf South Africa posthumously honored Nkrumah. Mr. Ampofo made thefollowing remarks on behalf of Kwame Nkrumah and the people of Ghana: “Gaining perspectives into



how Dr. Kwame Nkrumah has affected the lives of the people of South Africa, I found out that back inthe days of Apartheid, the oppressed people went to school and were taught the principles of KwameNkrumah and Nkrumahism.”

In another related context, the 1978 United Nations’ Special Session “Gold Medal” award posthumouslygiven to Nkrumah offers another piece of collateral evidence in support of his signal role in takingApartheid apart. Consequently, no wellinformed student of African history and African politics can denythe psychocultural, intellectual, political, and philosophical power of “Consciencism” in making thedecolonization of Africa possible. Among other reasons, this assembly of hard facts may possibly explainwhy the brilliant mathematician Dr. Dompere chose “Consciencism” for his case study, anepistemological ambo over which to puzzle Nkrumah’s scientific and mathematicalrelated conjecturalsightings.

Yet again, Dr. Dompere’s methodological approach to Nkrumah is unlike the epochal scientific clashbetween Copernican heliocentrism and Ptolemaic geocentrism. His methodological approach is one ofnuance, of subtlety. Pointedly, a case could categorically be made that the philosophical underpinnings ofthis book, “Consciencism,” represents a paradigm shift, an epistemological methodology for rescuing theAfrican mindset, dead scalage drowning in the oceanic peonage of inferiority complex, from thesuffocative epistemological clench of Eurocentrism. This recalls Cheikh Anta Diop’s invigoratingAfrocentric critique of classical history and historiography, a position already assumed elsewhere!

On the other hand, Homer Greene also writes in “Philosophy and the Black Experience,” a piecepublished in The American Philosophical Associations (Fall 2009, Vol. 09, Number 1), coedited byJohn McClendon and George Yancy: “Dr. Kwame Nkrumah holds the distinction of being the first blackpresident of the first black African country…He is considered the leading historical person whoconceptually directed Africa in its struggle for decolonization in all of its forms and is also recognized asthe seminal thinker of a united Africa and of PanAfricanism…He is also, in my opinion, the seminalphilosophical theorist arguing for the unification of African, PanAfricanism, humanism, egalitarianism,socialism, ethics and its related selection of choices based upon one’s conscience.”

Further, the Historical Record of Wyoming Valley: A Compilation of Matters (Vol. 7) says of HomerGreene: “Homer Greene, Esq., of Honesdale, is one of Pennsylvania’s gifted sons. Besides being asuccessful lawyer, Mr. Greene is a writer of standard literature and is one of Wayne Country’s mostprominent men…” Let us also point out that Greene’s general affirmative assessment is not far fromProf. Kwame Arhin’s equinoctialline of critical inquiry into Nkrumah’s legacy. He maintains: “Hisname shall endure as the leading emancipator of Ghana, the leading protagonist of African independenceand unity, and a statesman of world stature of the twentieth century.” More specifically, the Sisypheanweight of Nkrumah’s intellectual and political magnetism has come to represent a stamp of centripetalpunctilio with which thinkers, historians, scholars, critical social theorists, and political scientists redirect Nkrumah toward their research and philosophical centers.

Equally emphatically, the characterological nondistantiality of such highprofile assessments by twowellinformed intellectuals, Arhin and Greene, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, for one thing, speaks tothe technical urgency with which giants like WEB DU Bois, Ama Mazama, Molefi Kete Asante, JuneMilne, Malcolm X, George Padmore, Thomas L. Hodgkin, Eric Williams, Arthur Lewis, Zizwe Poe,CLR James, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Robeson, and KofiKissi Dompere among others approach Nkrumah and his intellect. These imputed facts also go to cementthe universal appeal of Nkrumah to intellectuals of diverse intellectual stripes across national borders,leading publishers to reissue his scholarly works in 13 languages and drawing the auctorial attention ofbiographers from around the world, white and black.



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Evidently, though, Nkrumah’s ability to link two crucial composite systems of human intellection, theoryand praxis, in potentially actualizing the material comfort of the people, of the masses, and in theirpassage out of the epithelialduct of mental and physical villeinage, characterized his humanism and evenmade him a towering figure over his contemporaries, including JB Danquah, Julius Nyerere, NelsonMandela, KA Busia, among others. Nkrumah’s global political prominence and intellectual preeminenceeclipsed those of the likes of JB Danquah, KA Busia, Nelson Mandela, Julius Nyerere, etc., even as JomoKenyatta’s “Facing Mount Kenya” eclipses JB Danquah’s “Akan Doctrine of God” in the competitivefield of speculative metaphysics.

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ODKN Was A STEMIC CRID Leader =D ODKN was millennial ahead in STEMICs. He was a morethan an Economist, a theologian and a politician. 9ja's Dr. Awolowo's spirit will attest to Osagefo DrKwame Nkrumah's awesome STEMIC leadership QUALITIES.

(click to comment on this comment)Conventional Youth0530 00:50 MAYA ANGELOU AND NKRUMAH SISTER MAYA CAME TO GHANA . MALCOLM X CAMETO GHANA. DR KING CAME TO GHANA. THEY ALL CAME BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED INNKRUMAH.

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FRANCIS KWARTENG aka PROF FRANCIS KWARTENG aka PROF, why are you IDIOT hidingyourself now? Because you have spwed garbage you fear the attack after, "kwasea"

(click to comment on this comment)GIRLS SP0530 07:58 Girl SP ur the idiot Sorry girl you are the idiot . All those people came to Ghana with samora MachelAmilcar cabral Nyerere, Haile Selassie. Even Mohamed Ali was there . I saw them with my own eyesand heard them Maya with the School of drama al

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kojo T0530 14:39 The Mendacious Muckraker Is At It Again Kwateng, your cantankerous and obstreperous gossiping, hereon ghanaweb, "Certainly a new wind is blowing all over Africa. The spirit of Kwame Nkrumah isawakened". Really? I don't see it. And even if it happens, the Togol

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Mr. FigureOut0530 05:29 Correction ............gossiping is really annoying.

(click to comment on this comment)Mr. FigureOut0530 05:31 We need an Nkrumah center Stay in your hole. The wind is blowing. Christianity only caught fire longafter Christ died Today Nkrumaism is on the ascendancy. Sure Francis need to compare a giant withminnows like Busia and Danquah. What did they bequet

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Kojo T0530 14:43 Hmmm..! Do I Hear OkoampaAhoofe...? I bet my bottom dollar that this inyourface bold contrariananalysis of Nkrumah's Works to what Professor OkoampaAhoofe, Jr. has been for years denying the latePresident would prick the wounds of the Professor. Do I h

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)G. K. Berko0530 00:53 DANQUAH WAS A CIA AGENT IN A TIME WHEN THE CIA WAS AGAINST THE LIBERATIONMOVEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA, AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS FIGHTERS IN THE US,DANQUAH WAS ON ITS PAYROLL. DANQUAH WAS IN BED WITH THE CIA. THE MAN WASA TRAITOR TO AFRICA. THE M

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)PROF0530 01:43 AND SO WHAT? Dankwa was a C.I.A agent and so what? After Nkrumah's autocratic rule, all ourconstitutions have vindicated the UP tradition, by calling on Ghanaians to overthrow oppressors rule.Uniting to overthrow the oppressor includes

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)JC0530 10:20 It is such blatant onesided justificsti If it was justified that all Dictators were to be overthrown, the CIAshould have started with their allies in the Oil rich Gulf countries, like Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and notleft Houphouet, Eyadema, Lee Kuan Yu, and othe

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)G. K. Berko0530 16:04







I meant Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore. In the above comment I erred in spelling the name of theSingaporean past Premier. The correct name is: Lee Kuan Yew. Long Live Ghana!!!

(click to comment on this comment)G. K. Berko0530 16:14 Only Akyems like Danquah Nkrumah is loved by Akans, Gas, ewes, Frafras, Dagombas, you name it.But it seems the only people who like JB Danquah are Akyem people. I havent heard any others praiseDanquah.

(click to comment on this comment)Tetteh Tsuru0530 03:08 The Akyem Disliked Danquah The Akyem People, including Okoampa Ahhofe,Sr. never voted forDanquah.

(click to comment on this comment)Yaw Brentuo0530 03:22 Bankrupting a nation is not greatness. When Frimpong Ansah of the Bank of Ghana informed Nkrumahthat Ghana's foreign currency reserve stood at five hundred thousand pounds at one point, Nkrumah didnot believe him. Ghana was essentially bankrupt because of his po

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kwadwo0530 06:46







Pls spare us the bogus economic analysis Kwadwo, the fact is, the money went into vital investmentssuch as human capital(or have you forgetting about free education and its accompanied infrastructures?)not to mention investments in agriculture, industry and the se

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kosoko0530 12:30 Re: Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah’s Scientific Think Well done Francis you have in you the stature ofan intellectual giant which overwhelms and make insignificant what your detractors throw at you. Thereare only few who can elucidate the stature of the great Nkrumah like

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Ako0530 00:56 WHEN MAN BECOMES GIRLS SP Listen,GIRLS SP when a man becomes GIRLS SP instead ofBOYS SP,he becomes mentally deranged.

(click to comment on this comment)Oheneba Asare0530 02:57 THIS KWARTENG IS A MAD PERSON KWARTENG WILL WRITE A WHOLE BOOK COPIEDAND PASTED BUT CARRIES NO SENSE JUST LIKE KWARTENG HIMSELF, HE IS IDLE GOODFOR NOTHING. I DON'T THINK THIS KWARTENG GUY IS WORTH TO BE USED ASFIREWOOD.

(click to comment on this comment)GIRLS SP0530 00:58 U MAKE NO SENSE YOU HAVE SAID NOTHING SO FAR.

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KWARTENG THE NUMBER 1 IDIOT WHY SHOULD YOU IDIOT HIDE BEHIND ANOTHERNAME (PROF) TO DEFEND YOURSELF FOR WRITING NONSENSE. I WILL BLAME FRANCISAKOTO FROM GHANAWEB IN HOLLAND FOR PUBLISHING YOU WEED FOR US TO READ.IT'S RATHER UNFORTUNATE AND SAD.

(click to comment on this comment)GIRLS SP0530 08:18 Your place is at the mental hospital! Your skull needs to be opened to see if you have a human or dogbrain.

(click to comment on this comment)JC0530 06:28 Over To You Literary Scholars My question is: can Okoampa Ahhofe Snr PhD write better than that? Idon't know the answer. Over to you Okoampa

(click to comment on this comment)Hot English0530 22:37 NKRUMAH NEVER DIES Truely NKRUMAH never dies.

(click to comment on this comment)Baffour Agyemang0531 07:52 Absent Brother back Brother Kwateng, thanks once more for the fire. The truth is that, we regret doingwhat we did to Nkrumah and ourselves but our egos will not allow a sober reflection. We either takeNkrumah and Afrocentrism or perish. I wil

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To Brother Dear Brother, Good to see you back again. I was wondering where you have been all thiswhile. I hope you and your family are doing just great. You know we cannot be sick as the task ahead ofus is heavy...lol Brothe

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Feature Article of Thursday, 12 June 2014 Columnist: Kwarteng, Francis

Dr. Kofi Dompere On Kwame Nkrumah’sScientific Thinking 2It is generally believed Kwame Nkrumah gave the neology of “neocolonialism” to the world. In fact, theword and the holistic concept behind it first emerged in the 1963 exordium of the Organization ofAfrican States Charter, a concept he theoretically expatiated on in his influential 1965 “NeoColonialism:The Last Stage of Imperialism,” a beautiful yet critical text deemed controversial by the West,particularly America. Since then, Noam Chomsky, MIT’s worldfamous cognitive scientist, linguist,logician, prolific writer, and philosopher, the late JeanPaul Sartre, one of the world’s 20thCentury’sprominent philosophers, the late Edward W. Said, Columbia University author of “Orientalism” and“Culture and Imperialism,’ and several others have expanded upon it.

Today, “neocolonialism” is a universal body of language, a universal system of thought highly critical ofthe excesses of capitalist exploitation and imperialism. Thus, it is no coincidence that the scientific andphilosophical relevancy of Nkrumah’s innovational congregation of ideas to today’s social, economic,and political portmanteaux of problems would underwrite his intrinsic magnetic appeal to transnationalscholars, scientists, researchers, philosophers, historians, logicians, and policy makers. His analyticalignment with the scientific method in his philosophical disposition is even more appealing to thehuman mind. Yet the methodical denseness of Nkrumah’s intellectual ideas is not a digestible eatage forthe feebleminded. Many eminent scholars from around the world have alluded to this fact, a positionwhose eloquent clarity would soon be established.

On the other hand, closely shadowing Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere, an American intellectual behemothwhose multidisciplinary approach to Nkrumah, his transformative ideas, uniquely constitutes, howeverone looks at it, the missing link between Nkrumah’s sophisticated philosophical understanding of humanand race relations, society, development economics, humanism, political economy, decolonization,industrialization, on the one hand, and the intellectual depth of Nkrumah’s scientific thinking, on theother hand, this, through critical appraisal of “Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology forDecolonization,” does not evitably lighten the backbreaking exegetical weight one usually encounterswhen trying to unknot the philosophical convolution that accrues with an intellectual acquaintance of“Consciencism,” either.

Further, according to Dr. Kwame BotweAsamoah, one of the world’s finest Nkrumah scholars and aworld authority on PanAfricanism, among others, it took Dr. Dompere, an eminent mathematician,economist, historian, cultural theorist, and philosopher, ten years to fully appreciate as well as to puzzleout the philosophical, mathematical, and scientific power of “Consciencism.” In essence, leafage of studygroups have been erected around the Iroko Tree of Nkrumah’s scholarly works, however, for many,“Consciencism,” principally, has proven to be a tough nut to crack. In this connection, Dr. BotweAsamoah, like his closest friend and colleague Dr. Dompere, had himself cautiously acknowledged thebook’s internal structural formidability, multiconceptual layering, and multiple interpretations it lendsitself to.

Quite unsurprisingly, Profs. BotweAsamoah and Dompere are not alone in their critical construal of“Consciencism.” In effect, Dr. John H. McClendon, an America philosopher, has written extensivelyabout the discursive misunderstandings associated with and the interpretive ambivalence generally




expressed towards “Consciencism.” We quote him at length: “A tremendous amount of confusionpersists over the philosophical nature of ‘Consciencism.’ The level of abstraction and the intensiveinvestigation into history of Western philosophy…leaves some readers puzzled and bewildered. Moresubstantially, the nature of Nkrumah’s arguments, claims and theses are rather complicated andintricate…For others, at best, it is a complex philosophical work that displays Nkrumah’s erudition,philosophical profundity and intellectual adroitness (See Prof. McClendon’s “Nkrumah’s Consciencismas Philosophical Text: Matters of Confusion,” “Journal of African Philosophy,” 2003, Issue 3; see alsoJack O’Dell’s “Kwame Nkrumah and the African Conscience”).

Dr. McClendon adds: “I have encountered, in my own discussions with a broad range of people over thecourse of thirty years, a wide spectrum in the comprehension of and reaction to the book. I discoveredthere are different levels of understanding extending from almost complete ignorance, as to the nature ofthe text, to serious study circles that digested the book page by page. I have met and taught students whoclaimed they were Nkrumahists, yet had failed to read “Consciencism.” Prof. McClendon thenconcludes: “This, I think, is most lamentable in light of the fact that arguably ‘Consciencism’ constitutesthe philosophical core of Nkrumahism.” As a matter of principle, both Profs. Dompere and BotweAsamoah hold similar opinions, just as Lang T.K.A. Nubour, author of “The Mind of Kwame Nkrumah:Manual for the Study of Consciencism.”

But, Lang T.K.A. Nubour, for his part, has strongly warned readers’ against falling for the revisionistrenditions of the original text published in 1964, thus writing: “The danger is that some people, who havenot read the book or failed to read it entirely, are taking in the revisionist’s stuff…It is for this reason thatreading an original text from a secondary source without the consideration of the original text itself is notonly injurious to the academic or intellectual health of the victim but also portrays that victim as one bigbundle of laziness…” Interestingly, quite apart from these necessary and notable reservations, Prof.McClendon skillfully engages Beninois philosopher Paulin Hountondji, putatively, on matters related tointertextual “problems” occasioned by Nkrumah’s revision of the original text in 1970, with his rigorouscritique of Hountondji being reduced to a simple matter of interpretation, context, glossing over ofessential facts, as Hountondji makes discursive transitions between the original text and its revisedversion.

This recollection of facts provides some useful background to Dr. Dompere’s essential work on Nkrumahvisàvis “Consciencism,” perhaps Nkrumah’s magnum opus, a book we propose to be read in tandemwith “Africa Must Unite” and “Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism.” What is more,Nkrumah, a strategic planner, tactician, and experienced organizer, who was closely intimate with thepolitical economy of Africa, colonialism, history, realized a crucial need for a redemptive philosophy toget Africa out of her messy colonial Gordian knot, to guide as well as to pave the way for herdevelopment and growth, hence his conceptualization of “Consciencism.” Progressive thinkers andnational leaders the world over utilize strategic planning, which is hardly a hallmark of researchprioritization in the national development of Africa today, especially, as part of their national formulaefor positive growth, development, and industrialization, with excellent examples of strategic planningbeing Nkrumah’s Five and SevenYear Development Plans.

Technically, these are precisely what give birth to and sustains industrial economies. Besides, “strategicplanning” is a running function of other concomitant variables, including, but not limited to, deepknowledge of political economy, international politics and finance, critical thinking, project management,forecasting, operations research/management science (science of decision making), economics (behavioreconomics), humanism, race and human relations, infrastructurization and maintenance science,international law, implementation research, environmental consciousness, group cognition/groupdynamics, communication science; as well as of strong educational and institutional structures;



availability of efficient public services; institutional probity, transparency, accountability, and the like.However, a close reading of “Consciencism” demonstrably gives credence to implicit anticipation ofthese equational variables for national development.

Importantly, the “theory of multiple intelligences,” mathematics, science, operations management,technology, information technology/industrialization, engineering, with a strong liberal arts/humanitiesfoundation, are at the heart of strategic management. Technically, no modern nationstate should expectto develop, to grow, by harnessing these innovative ideas outside the immediate geopolitical context ofhealthy nationalism, patriotism, or citizenship. In consequence, the visionary Nkrumah, in hindsight,favored these creative ideas then vigorously pursued a progressive national development model basedprimarily on these revolutionary ideas. Yet, this bold assertion, again, arguably, cannot be sufficientlyconstrued outside the analytic purview of Nkrumah’s “categorical conversion,” an exegetical stylemarkof “Consciencism,” which Dr. Dompere exhaustively explores in his scientific and mathematicalappraisal of Nkrumahism.

In simple terms, the theoretical construct “categorical conversion” points to a conceptual framework ofsituational assessment where one system of idea or concept emerges from another. An immediateexample is when consciousness emerges from comatoseness or vegetativeness. More generally, theconcept seems to connect the spatialcultural dots in an otherwise epistemological lineation, a viewcaught between Kwame Nkrumah, a formidable intellectual whose analytic depths Dr. Dompereexegetically captures in his exploratory lucubration on Nkrumah, on the one hand, and what ancientNilotic Africans saw essentially as The Scarab Beetle in Kemetian (Ancient Egyptian) cosmology, on theother hand, in accounting for a system of dominant practices and beliefs in respect of the philosophicalparticularity of Kemetian cultural polity.

The Scarab Beetle cosmologically symbolized “rebirth,” a cultural concept somewhat similar to“categorical conversion” in logic (mathematics) and philosophy. On the basis of analytic simplicity,however, we may subject “categorical conversion” to another system of definitional reductionism, anexplanatory formula whose operational properties can be liked to “relation,” “function,” or “mapping” inmathematics, or to Le Chatellier’s Principle, ergodicity, Markov chains, entropydriven phase transitions,thermodynamics (statistical mechanics), Brownian motion, time series, regression analysis, Fouriertransform, etc, all of which may be remotely, if contextually, applicable to Dr. Dompere’s scholarlyapproach to the study of Nkrumah. Interestingly still, the concept may be likened to chaos theory asnovelistically described by Dr. Michael Crichton in his science fiction “Jurassic Park.” Thus, “categoricalconversion” may conveniently take the place of psychological, developmental, and national “rebirth” or“renaissance” subject to a preset of welldefined conditionalities, which may preferably fall under asystem of cultural, philosophical, social, ethical, political, and economic covariates.

Then again, as noted elsewhere, Nkrumah’s “Consciencism” provides a rich philosophical guidepost toAfrica’s development, given the historical context of centuriesold cultural, spiritual, and politicalforeignization of “traditional” Africa by Islamic and EuroChristian influences. Fundamentally, amongother noble objectives, Nkrumah philosophically designed his “Consciencism” to mediate a compromiseamong these influences in the service of Africa’s positive development. Notably, this groundbreakingconcept will eventually come to define political scientist Ali Mazrui’s controversial bookmovie “TheAfricans: A Triple Heritage,” with its serialized television coverage mutually produced by the NigerianTelevision Authority, the BBC, and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Ali Mazrui’s “The Africans”took inspiration from Edward W. Blyden’s “Chrsitianity, Islam, and the Negro Race” as well.

Namely, Kwame Nkrumah’s “Consciencism” demonstrates a rapacious capacity for “universal”applicability as Wole Soyinka’s “The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness,” Frantz Fanon’s





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STOP NYEBROLIZING BOTWE! HAS NO WORK STOP NYEBROLIZING SCHOLARSHIP!WHAT HAS KWAME BOTWEASAMOAH WRITTEN ABOUT NKRUMAH? TWEAA HISGHANAWEB ARTCILES ON NKURMAH? Dr. Kwame BotweAsamoah, one of the world’s finestNkrumah scholars and a world authority on PanAf

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)K. Ghana0612 04:24 ANOTHER BRILLIANT PIECE NKRUMAH, DESPITE HIS FAULTS, IS THE GREATESTAFRICAN LEADER.

(click to comment on this comment)PROF0612 04:30 What a disquisition! My brother Francis, your scientific writings are indeed thoughtprovoking, perhapsleast understood by many who visit this forum. This writing, richly steeped in arcane philosophy,mathematical discourse, and esoteric ramific

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kwesi Atta Sakyi







0612 05:47 Correction I meant bordering not bothering.

(click to comment on this comment)Kwesi Atta Sakyi0612 05:49 SEE THE HYPOCRITE IDIOT KWARTENG AGAIN THE WHOLE WRITE UP IS A GARBAGE,INDEED A GARBAGE WRITTEN BY AN IDIOT

(click to comment on this comment)GIRLS SP0612 18:13 Hi Kwesi any more Zambian beer? Well summed up. We are in Brazil , just watch us OK . Just keepaway from the Zambian beauts and the beer

(click to comment on this comment)Kojo T0612 15:14 You Lot are Crazy Oh dear Lord have mercy on these lunatics! What is all these repetitions and nonsenseabout? Knowing that you are not making any sense whatsover you decide to insult readers by saying thatthis piece of shit can only be under

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Okra0612 19:05







To Okra $ Others Hello Okra, Don't let emotions override your sense of thinking. I know who you are.Your IP has just been confirmed to me. Work on Nkrumah has been done at Harvard, Oxford, and manyof America's top universities. N

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)francis kwarteng0612 20:28 "Bordering" not "bothering". "........bordering on the ideal of perfectionism".

(click to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0612 22:58 No two ways about that. Can anyone on here tell me which African leader past or present, apart fromNkrumah, had such a foresight or vision that took the welfare of the African continent and for thatmatter, Ghana as the backbone of his beliefs in

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)military man0612 23:52 A consciencedriven Patriot Well, that explains why during the very tough selection process of 'Africa's100 Best Books of the 20th Century' a competition (Part 1 of this essay series), Kwame Nkrumah’s“Consciencism” was never brought forward as a

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Fiwisintin0612 23:23







Too Fiwinistin Dear Fiwisintin, Excellent and pointed summary you put out here. That said, the debatestill goes on among international scholars, researchers, philosphers, etc., as to the exact nature of thisbook, which is about 134



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Feature Article of Wednesday, 18 June 2014 Columnist: Kwarteng, Francis

Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah’s ScientificThinking 3“It is Nkrumah the theoretician and practitioner of PanAfricanism who continues to provide interest andrespect (Kofi Hadjor).”

The above quote is undeniably a statement of fact. Several international scholars, scientists, historians,postcolonial theorists, political scientists, economists, and critical race theorists interested in the Africanworld, human dignity, globalization, as well as human and race relations have come to the sameconclusion as Kofi Hadjor’s. Indeed, Nkrumah’s unquestionable erudition, academic credentials,professional associations, politicoeconomic prudence, and analytic sophistication, otherwise representedby such thoughtfully creative works as “Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization,”“Africa Must Unite,” and “NeoColonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism,” are part of his magneticappeal to the world. No Ghanaian or African, dead or living, for that matter, remotely comes closemeasuring by the standards of his achievements. Once again we cannot overemphasize this indispensablepoint.

This defines the intellectual intersection where the unparalleled scientific scholarship of Dr. Kofi KissiDompere, a formidable USbased Ghanaian mathematician, statistician, economist, cultural theorist,philosopher, historian, cultural theorist, logician, operations researcher, business analyst, and prolificwriter, reigns supreme. Among other notable achievements, Dr. Dompere has been acknowledged as oneof the central thinkers in the American Academy known for blending the “rigid” frontiers of thehumanities/liberal arts and science. Then, having said that, scholarship on Nkrumah and his signalcontributions to human civilization transcends the emotional particularities of race, ethnicity, geography,ideology, language, and culture. In fact, the sublime example of Nkrumah is exactly what the youth oftoday should emulate while still acknowledging his salient foibles and shortcomings, granted that no true,genuine, influential, patriotic, outstanding, productive, and progressive leader is perfect. No human beingis, can, or must.

Certainly, great and exceedingly gifted, intelligent leaders like Nkrumah should not be uncriticallyapotheosized, as it were, but rather should be constructively criticized within the proper contexts.Namely, from the holistic perspectives bordering on the circumstances of his rich, varied education, ofthe intellectual and political inferiority of some of his detractors and enemies, as well as of history, globalstation among exceptional leaders and strategic thinkers, force of personality, time and place, intellectualbrilliance, spirituality, prescience, friendships, local and international politics (Cold War, etc), moral andpolitical strengths and weaknesses, among others. Thus, a critical integral approach to an unemotional ornonpartisan assessment of his legacy is certainly bound to turn out more credits than debits in thebalance sheet of his political and intellectual bequests.

Yet we cannot also avoid the rich backgrounds of those who have been influenced by or constructivelycommented on Nkrumah’s legacy, politics, economic policies, and scholarly works, particularly.However, this is to implicitly say Nkrumah was not influenced by others, as his mentors are proverbiallyknown. In fact, a new book by Dr. Belete Belachew Yihun, “Black Ethiopia: A Glimpse into AfricanDiplomacy, 19561991,” for instance, sheds new light on the diplomacy Haile Selassie exerted onfractious elements within Africa’s Founding Fathers to sign up in respect of the founding of the




Organization of African Unity (OAU). In other words, Selassie’s collaborative role in actualizing theofficial founding of the OAU by diplomatically bringing everyone onboard is not an extraneous fact ofAfrica’s political history. This singular statement of fact can neither be ignored nor its historical importminimized.

Once again, as we cursorily mentioned before in “Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah’s Scientific Thinking2,” we shall chip in here that, most of those who have either come under the direct influence ofNkrumah’s innovative ideas or have exerted commentarial critiques on Nkrumah’s scholarly works aswell as expatiated upon his ideas, represent some of the world’s notable thinkers, though some of us maynot necessarily have to agree with their controversial views. We have already mentioned Ali Mazrui,Edward W. Said, Ama Mazama, Kofi Kissi Dompere, Martin Luther King, Jr., Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Paulin Hountondji, JeanPaul Satre, David Birmingham, Kwame BotweAsamoah, Noam Chomsky, JohnH. McClendon, Molefi Kete Asante, Nelson Mandela, Kwame Anthony Appiah, among others.

For instance, Paulin Hountondji and JeanPaul Satre are products of École Normale Supérieure, one ofFrance’s elite research universities as well as the preeminent seat of her socalled French MathematicalSchool and French Physics. This educational institution has produced Nobel Laureates, Fields Medalists(“Field Medal” is the Nobel equivalent in mathematics”), numerous Prime Ministers and several otherFrench ministers outside the office of premiership. It also has produced some of the world’s best preeminent thinkers in the human sciences, especially, scholars such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida,Louis Althusser, Alain Badiou, and Pierre Bourdieu. Finally, École Normale Supérieure has been ranked“the best highereducation institution in Continental Europe in 2006 and 2007, and has remained amongthe top three in the same category since then.”

What's more, JeanPaul Satre’s was a nephew of Albert Schweitzer, his maternal uncle, and a thinkerwhose philosophical masterpiece “Reverence for Life,” an influential ethical invention, would win him aNobel Prize in 1952. JeanPaul Satre was a heavyweight in the fields of existentialism andphenomenology as well. We have already noted that Nkrumah is generally associated with the conceptualneology of “neocolonialism” in 1963, which he further theoretically developed in his influential 1965text, “NeoColonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism,” with Noam Chomsky and JeanPau Satrecontributing to its theoretical development, as in “The Washington Connection and Third WorldFascism,” 1979, and “Colonialism and NeoColonialism,” 1964, respectively. Noam Chomsky is a globalphenomenon. Therefore, we shall not belabor his legacy here. On the other hand, JeanPaul Satre, likeKwame Nkrumah, stood tall as one of Frantz Fanon’s important colleagues and friends.

Yet again, the AfroMartinician psychiatrist, revolutionary, and philosopher, Dr. Frantz Fanon, one of20thCentury’s celebrated thinkers as well as one of the intellectual and strategic pillars behind theAlgerian Revolution (also a member of Algeria’s National Liberation Front), authored influential workssuch as “The Wretched of the Earth,” “A Dying Colonialism,” “Black Skin, White Masks,” and “Towardthe African Revolution.” Dr. Fanon’s scholarly, scientific, and philosophical treatises gave moral andrevolutionary voice to national liberation and anticolonial movements around the world. His powerfulideas helped shape the moral and political direction of America’s Civil Rights Movement, for instance.Most importantly, Dr. Fanon sought Nkrumah’s wisdom by consulting with him on strategic and tacticalquestions with reference to Africa and the world when the Provisional Algerian Government (GPRA)made him an Ambassador to Ghana.

The world cannot gloss over Dr. Fanon’s progressive legacy to the world and his ideological connectionto Nkrumah. His humanism was only matched by a few great men and women, like Desmond Tutu,Martin Luther King, Jr., Bob Marley, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Boff, NelsonMandela, Juan J. Segundo, Kwame Nkrumah, Ken SaroWiwa, Oscar Romero, WEB Du Bois, Rita



Marley, and Malcolm X. Scholars around the world regard him as a leading thinker on the psychotherapyof colonization. In fact, an essay, “Frantz Fanon (19251961),” authored by Lewis University Dr. TraceyNicholls, and published in “Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A PeerReviewed Academic Source,”says of Dr. Fanon: “Frantz Fanon was one of a few extraordinary thinkers supporting the decolonizationstruggles occurring after World War ll, and he remains among the most widely read and influential ofthese voices. His brief life was notable both for his wholehearted engagement in the independencestruggle the Algerian people waged against France and for his astute, passionate analyses of the humanimpulse towards freedom in the colonial context…”

Dr. Nicholls adds this important point, however: “Fanon’s first work ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ was hisfirst effort to articulate a radical antiracist humanism that adhered neither to assimilation to a whitesupremacist mainstream nor to reactionary philosophies of black supremacy…His later works, notably‘A Dying Colonialism’ and the much more wellknown ‘The Wretched of the Earth,’ go beyond apreoccupation with Europe’s pretensions to being a ‘universal standard of culture and civilization,’ inorder to take on the struggles and take up the consciousness of the colonized ‘natives’ as they rise up andreclaim simultaneously their lands and their human dignity” (middle parenthetic emphasis ours). Sheconcludes: “It is Fanon’s expansive conception of humanity and his decision to craft the moral core ofdecolonization theory as a commitment to the individual human dignity of each member of populationstypically dismissed as ‘the masses’ that stands as his enduring legacy…At the request of the FLN, hisbody was returned to Tunisia, where it was subsequently transported across the border and buried in thesoil of the Algerian nation for which he fought so singlehardly during the last five years of his life (Seealso David Macey’s “Frantz Fanon: A Biography”).” These admirable historical recollections are equallyevocative of theoretical Nkrumahism, even of Nkrumah.

On the contrary, Dr. Hountondji’s classic scholarly work, “Endogenous Knowledge: Research Trails,”supplements the research work of Dr. Ron Eglash, an expert on the History of Consciousness and one ofAmerica’s important mathematicians, cyberneticists, and systems engineering, which is represented by“African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design” (See also Hountondji’s “Struggle forMeaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa”). Dr. Eglash has painstakinglyshown how modern computer came into being via the cultural exportation of “African Fractals” toEurope several centuries ago, which Gottfried Leibniz, socalled codiscoverer of calculus, GeorgeBoole, and Jon von Newmann, directly or indirectly worked on. Finally, Dr. Hountondji was once amember of Harvard University’s W.E.B Du Bois Fellows Program (Fall 2009).

In addition, according to the website of Harvard University: “The Fellows Program, the oldest of theInstitute’s activities, invites up to twenty scholars to be in residence each year, reflecting theinterdisciplinary breadth of African and African American Studies. The Institute has appointed Fellowssince its inception in 1975 and supports research at both the predoctoral and postdoctorial levels…DuBois Fellows include scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. The Institute’s MandelaFellows Program is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon in collaboration with the University of CapeCoast.” This extensive quote is meant to underscore the multidimensional facet of African and AfricanAmerican Studies, of whose theoretical founding and institutional makeup Nkrumahism have greatlyimpacted, a salient point made known by Dr. Zizwe Poe, one of America’s leading Nkrumah scholars,has acknowledged.

Again, according to the website, the Fellows Program has benefited no less than 300 alumni, including,but not limited to, Wole Soyinka (a Noble Laureate), Brent Edwards (Columbia University), Gloria W.Gayles (Spellman College), David W. Blight (Yale University), Evelyn B. Higginbotham (HarvardUniversity), Claude Steele (Columbia University), Arnold Rampersad (Stanford University), CornelWest (Princeton University), among others (See Harvard University’s Annual Report 2010). That aside,



Drs. Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama do not need elaborate introduction here. Both have singlehandedly transformed Western Academy, particularly America’s, as it relates to historiography, criticaltheory, history, Egyptology, linguistics, etc. The “Utne Reader” says particularly of Asante: “One of the100 Leading Thinkers in America.” In effect, Nkrumah’s influence on both Mazama and Asante is partof this radical transformation of Western scholarship on Africa, especially America’s. Dr. KwameBotweAsamoah’s friend Dr. Maulana Karenga, a holder of two doctorates and one of America’s leadingmoral philosophers, has equally greatly been influenced by Kwame Nkrumah. Ali Mazrui is a product ofManchester University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), and Oxford University (PhD).

Pointedly, other nonAfrican intellectuals and researchers have written extensively about Nkrumah andhis legacy as well. Let us look at a few. The BritishSwiss historian Prof. David Birmingham, abiographer of Kwame Nkrumah, held the Chair of Modern History at the University of Kent (Canterbury,England), from 1980 to 2001 (See his books “Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism,”“Kwame Nkrumah: Makers of the Twentieth Century,” and “The Decolonization of Africa”). OtherEuropeans who have written about Nkrumah include the French scholar Cecile Laronce (See “Nkrumah:Le Panafricanisme Et Les EtatsUnis”); the British scholar David Rooney (See “Kwame Nkrumah:Vision and Tragedy”); the British biographer June Milne (See “Forward Ever: Kwame Nkrumah: ABiography” and “Kwame Nkrumah: The Conakry Years: His Life and Letters”); the British historian,Africanist, and prolific author Basil Davidson (See “Black Star: A View of the Life and Times of KwameNkrumah”).

Another important British scholar and researcher Prof. Richard Rathbone, an exChairman of theUniversity of London’s Center for African Studies, Dean of Postgraduate Studies at the School ofOriental and African Studies, SOAS, has written another influential scholarly work on Nkrumah (SeeProf. Rathbone’s “Nkrumah & Chiefs: Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 19511960”), recalling what thewebsite of the University of London has to say about SOAS: “SOAS, University of London, is theworld’s leading institution for the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.” Among other things, Prof.Rathbone’s research work has taken him to several universities including the University of Ghana,Bordeaux, Toronto, South Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg), Lesotho, Harvard, Princeton, andAberystwyth University (Wales). Importantly, he has served on the Council of the Royal HistoricalSociety as well as been one of its VicePresidents (See www.richardrathbone.org).

Last but not least, the Asian scholar Dr. Hakim Adi has also discussed Nkrumah and others (See “PanAfrican History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787,” a book cowritten withMarika Sherwood, a JewishHungurianborn British historian, educator, researcher. She is also ahonorary senior research fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies, aswell as a cofounder of the Black and Asian Studies Association). Marika Sherwood’s the author of thebook “Kwame Nkrumah: The Years Abroad 19351947” and the essays “Nkrumah and PanAfricanism:19421958,” “George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah: A Tentative Outline of Their Relationship,” “ThePanAfrican Conference, Kumasi, 1953,” “Nkrumah: The Student Years in London, 19451947,” and“PanAfrican Conferences, 19001953: What did PanAfricanism Mean.”

Phillip M. Parker (PhD, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School), Nkrumah’s alma mater), a WhiteAmerican intellectual and the INSEAD Chair Professorship of Management Science (France), is anotherNkrumah biographer. INSEAD is “Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires,” French for“European Institute of Business Administration.” Dr. Parker has advanced degrees in banking, finance,business/managerial economies, with undergraduate degrees in biology, mathematics, and economics. Hetoo has authored a book on Nkrumah, titled “Nkrumah: Webster’s Timeline History, 19092007.” YetAgain, this is not to say every single book in the corpus of Nkrumah biographies we have mentioned iscritical. It is merely to demonstrate Nkrumah’s global appeal to the world.



Finally, the late Columbia University professor Edward W. Said’s alma maters include PrincetonUniversity (B.A) and Harvard University (PhD). Dr. Said was awarded nearly 20 honorary degrees “inthe course of his professional life as an academic, critic, and Man of Letters.” He also received HarvardUniversity’s Bowdoin Prize, the Lionel Trilling Book Award (twice), the American ComparativeLiterature Association’s Wellek Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, the Morton DauwenZabel Award (literature), the Sultan Owais Prize (first American citizen to receive this award), theLannan Literary Award (Lifetime Achievement), the 2000 AnisfieldWolf Award (nonfiction), etc. Thisassembly of facts amply demonstrates another salient fact, that commentators on Nkrumah have theintellectual wherewithal to make authoritative statements about his ideas and legacy. There are moreimportant names, however, but we hope this short list suffices.

Now, regarding the political weight and spiritual strength of his legacy, the world unanimously regardsNkrumah as one of the greatest human beings to ever walk the face of the earth. Amilcar Cabral said ofhim: “the strategist of genius in the struggle against classic colonialism”; Kofi Hadjor: “Nkrumah is areminder not of what Africa is, but of what Africa must become”; Amara Essy, an Interim Chairman ofthe AU Commission: “When we mention Kwame Nkrumah, we have summed up in one name the appealof all our heroes and precursors who, from the embryonic stage of PanAfricanism to the doors of ourpresent situation, have embodied our thrust for justice and dignity”; Bill Mahoney, US Ambassador toGhana (19621965): “Nkrumah was everything?psychologically, politically, statism, or culturally, andeconomically…he absolutely dominated the scene.” Put differently, Ambassador Mahoney primarily sawNkrumah as the unrivaled powerhouse of Africa. However, that critical observation of his constitutes anintellectual linchpin within the crowded scaffold of a sociological verity, that of Nkrumah’s intellectualand political preeminence.

Thus, Nkrumah was, to say the least, not merely a presential singularity in the convulsive history of man,but, pointedly, inseverably part of the flowing continuum of that same history of man. The man wasundeniably the creative embodiment of the noble aspirations of the downtrodden of the world, as AmaraEssy maintains. Putting everything we have said aside, it should be pointed out that Nkrumah’s“Consciencism,” a philosophical text upon which we have only distantly touched, is pregnant withcritical corollary and collateral questions, which, again, as we have noted elsewhere, may come as part ofa systematized cartilage of political, psychological, mathematical, economic, ethical, cultural, andscientific covariates. Many important questions do remain as to the correct interpretation of thephilosophical text, however. Arguably, it depends on one’s reading of the text, which, again, as we havenoted before, is open to multiple (mis)interpretations, probably a testament to Nkrumah’s restless genius,to his dialectical sophistication, that is to say.

But, as is often the case, the corpus of written works by great thinkers and writers have undergoneambiguous interpretation due to their methodological sophistication, readers’ culturalphilosophical(dis)location, writer’s ideological station, and readers’ general lack of appreciation of critical theory,history of science, history of scholarship, anthropology, chronology, sociology of knowledge, history ofphilosophy, and history of knowledge, for no writer’s written work(s) does say it all. That is, withoutcritically considering the exegetical particularities of a book’s plot context of culture, psychogeography,history, behavioral psychology, etc., beyond the ideological particularity of a writer’s unique auctorialpersonality. Dr. Kwame BotweAsamoah has systematically explained this to us in a series of privateconversations.

Relatedly, Nkrumah and his scholarly works have faced these aforecited challenges one way or theother. What is important here is that world authorities, including Ngugi wa Thiong’o (“Moving theCenter: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms”), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (“The Signifying Monkey: A





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Theory of AfricanAmerican Literary Criticism”), Toni Morrison (“Playing in the Dark: Whiteness andthe Literary Imagination”), Kofi Kissi Dompere (“Polyrhythmicity: Foundations of AfricanPhilosophy”), Wole Soyinka (“Myth, Literature, and the African World”), Kwame BotweAsamoah(“Kwame Nkrumah’s PoliticoCultural Thought and Politics”), Chinua Achebe (“Hopes andImpediments: Selected Essays, 19651987”), Molefi Kete Asante (“The Global InterculturalCommunication Reader”), Edward W. Said (“Culture and Imperialism”), among others, have in diverseways theoretically reinforced Dr. BotweAsamoah’s position on the relevance of literary theory andcriticism to exegesis.

Over all, on the subject of Nkrumah, the American philosopher Dr. John H. McClendon has suggested toresearchers, scientists, philosophers, and historians around the world to critically read “Consciencism” inthe general context of Nkrumah’s speeches and books, the dialectics of extratextuality, if you will, where,he believes, the book’s seeming ambiguities, internal contradictions, and irreconcilable differences havea diagnostic legroom of confirmatory resolution. This multidisciplinary approach is precisely what Dr.Dompere brings to the academic altar of Nkrumahism. In effect, Dr. Dompere pushes the analyticcalculus of his curious mind way beyond the exhortatory upperlimit of Dr. McClendon’srecommendation. For instance, he has atomistically looked at the weldment of Nkrumah’s ideas from thelogical depths of African “traditional” wisdom, such as “the Dogon system of thought,” “adinkralogy orthe adinkramatics of the Akan conceptual system,” and “Pharaohnic conceptual system,” which he bringsto bear on the scientific and mathematical mind of Nkrumah.

In fine, the summary ideas explored in this present installment and those in the other two before itprovide the requisite background to the mathematical and scientific exposition of “Consciencism” and“categorical conversion,” which we hypothetically address in “Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah’sScientific 4,” both of which have been jointly submitted to Ghanaweb the same day.

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Important Correction! Hello Readers, The statement: "However, this is to implicitly say Nkrumah wasnot influenced by others, as his mentors are proverbially known." Should have instead read: "However,this is NOT to implicitly say Nkr

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0618 03:15 nkrumah never die the greatest black man of all time

(click to comment on this comment)mashall0618 04:04 COMPELLING,BRILLIANT & INSIGHTFUL To:My Dear Brother In The Struggle Francis Kwarteng:AFTER Dr.NKRUMAH,NOTHIG IS EVER THE SAME IIN BLACK AFRICA. Your articles (likeProf.Bokor's)are refreshing and simply lucid, However,they are not meant for

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)unMisguided African Child.0618 09:55 To unMisguided African Child Dear Nana Yaw, Thanks for your nice words. I hope you will read Part 4.I believe it will be published today. Prof. Michael Bokor is a very good friend. He's a very talented writerand one of the pillars in the departm

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)francis kwarteng0618 16:53 No,Thank you Okay folks, let's all agree to canonize the much deify Nkrumah as KANKAN NYAME,the household name of the lesser god who was widely believed to be the spiritual godfather of the worldmost erudite philosopher, Dr. Nkrumah, wh

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Mr. FigureOut0618 11:10







Way off the mark "Okay folks, let's all agree to canonize the much deify Nkrumah as KANKANNYAME". We do not waste time terrorizing and throwing tantrums. We are educating them about theideas and mostly METHODOLOGY of Nkrumah . The concept o

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kojo T0618 15:00 EXERCISE IN CONFUSION WHAT WAS THIS KWARTENG MAN DOING? WAS HEREVIEWING DR DOMPRE'S BOOK ON NKRUMAH? OR WAS HE GIVING HIS OWNINTELLECTUAL SURVEY? HE DID INJUSTICE TO DR DOMPRE AND MADE A MESS OF HISOWN THESIS. IF THIS MAN CALLS HIMSELF A JOURNA

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Osei Yao0618 12:24 MR FIGUREOUT , PLEASE FIGURE OUT Mr FigureOut,if you really live up to the meaning of yourname,and really figure out who the great Nkrumah was,you will make an honest confesion that you arethe biggest FOOL in Africa.

(click to comment on this comment)Joe Mensah0618 14:49 FRANCIS,KEEP IT UP ! Keep on educating the semieducated fools who are imbued withMATEMEHO doctrine.Keep it up,Francis.

(click to comment on this comment)Kwame Bediako0618 15:01 To Osei Yao Hello Osei Yao, Thanks for your comments. This is part of my review of Dr. Kofi KissiDompere's work on Kwame Nkrumah. The point is that some readers were of the view that the names Imentioned in Part 2 of "Dr. Kof









francis kwarteng0618 15:24 Kwarteng's show off with his readings!!! There's absolutely no doubt that Kwarteng only wants to showreaders how many "heavy" authors he has read and how well read he is. Just take your time and count thenumber of authors he has made ref to in this article...

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Justin0618 15:23 63 named refs in this piece 63!!! I've been doing the counting and have come up to 63 different namesmentioned in this article. 63 different names!!! For each of these, Kwarteng spends a lot of time ininforming his readers of their long lists of credenti

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Feature Article of Thursday, 19 June 2014 Columnist: Kwarteng, Francis

Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah’s ScientificThinking 4This latest installment looks at the mathematical and scientific complications posed by or implied inNkrumah’s “Consciencism” and “categorical conversion,” analytic capsules of his scientificphilosophizing.

Perhaps, the most important question to ask at this juncture is, how empirically does Dr. Dompereevaluate the philosophical concept of “categorical conversion,” as abstractly employed by Nkrumah,from the analytic angle of mathematics and science? In other words, how does Dr. Dompere derive adistillate of sociopolitical equilibria or stabilizing forces from a chaotic system, of which the internecinecovariates of polarity, opposites, tension, identity, continuum, duality, information, and energy aretypical? There is an important caveat we need to bring upfront. He writes thus: “The universality ofcategorical conversion is yet to be understood, appreciated and made applicable across scientificspectrum in theory applications.” Elsewhere Dr. Dompere dialectically relates the concept of categoricalconversion to the qualitative laws of motion which he sees implicit in “Consciencism.”

Nonetheless, for reasons of analytic simplicity and philosophical convenience, we may usefully have tosubstitute this “chaotic system” for an assumed preset of internecine conditionalities derivable from thesociocultural tensions in African societies, supposedly accruing from the cultural and spiritual collisionbetween the world of “traditional” Africa and the worlds of Islam and of EuroChristianity. Thisphenomenological or cosmological collision is qualitatively evocative of Newtonian motion, particularlyof Newton’s Third Law of Motion, though, arguably, the relational assessment is certainly if additivelyand qualitatively one of unequal dichotomy in many parts of the cultural landscape of Africa, historicaland contemporary. Admittedly, Dr. Dompere’s rigorous mathematical and scientific reinterpretation of“Consciencism” is highly technical, dense, complicated, although, among other things, it integrally takesthe complexity of the preset of internecine covariates into equational consideration.

Yet, an equational appraisal of Africa’s tripartite situationism, contemporary and historical, may have toassume a formulaic state of fuzziness. Precisely how is this possible? Let us assume the collision betweenIslam and EuroChristianity, on the one hand, and Africa on the other, theoretically took place and stilldoes in an “open system.” By “open system,” we simply mean a system or scheme in a continuousinterface with its surroundings. Africa is that “open system” and its “surroundings” is the influences sheincurred from Islam and EuroChristianity. This is not to assert presumptively that Africa did notreciprocally impact these cultures. She surely did. It is merely to “dampen” that variable for the largerpicture, a simplistic equationization of the “categorical conversion.” What is more, let us assume that“open system” is a football pitch, say. Yet, instead of the eleven African players theoretically playingamong themselves, we have eleven EuroChristians and eleven Islamic adherents, twentytwo in all,mutually playing against the eleven African players.

The above scenario is emblematic of the operational rules governing “game theory” and “linearprogramming,” to name but two. But, this dynamicsystem setting is more intricate than descriptivelypresented in the preceding paragraph, which we merely offer as a philosophical microcosm of a largerpicture. There are the additional variables of player psychology; referee incompetence; match fixing(bribery); unforeseeable player injuries, sickness, or deaths; vandalism; refereeing biases; patriotism;




selfscoring (own goal); racism; prematch financial inducements or postmatch financial compensations;weather; physical fitness; how well or bad soccer rules are applied; expert coachability; tactics andstrategies; and what have you. The “game theory” part primarily deals with questions related to anetwork of tacit psychological processes one team integrally makes subject to both the implicit decisionsand explicit tactical moves of the opposing team. In any event, there is another factor, a confounding orinteracting variable, that of spectator support.

Then again, player psychology and spectator support, particularly, interact in a strange and meaningfulway, two essential variables that may constitute the deciding factor in a team’s success or failure in atournament. These impactful individual variables together take the place of “constraint” in theformulation of a “linear programming” equation, an algebraic recipe whose canonical form is representedby an “objective function,” which is a linear equality, otherwise Nkrumah’s overriding concern to moveAfrica from an “underdeveloped world,” or Africa losing the match against Islam and EuroChristianity,”to a “developed world,” or Africa winning the match against Islam and EuroChristianity.” Generally,“constraints,” on the contrary, are linear inequality constraints, theoretically our preset of internecineconditionalities, which are interacting variables in the “objective function,” much like Nkrumah’sinternal enemies in the CPP or those from without, the National Liberation Movement (NLM), say.

Moreover, in relative terms, a linear programming problem with two or three unknown variables isalways intellectually economical to solve without the aid of computer software (simplex algorithmdeveloped by George B. Dantzig). However, a linear programming problem with tens, possibly hundreds,of unknown variables with its corresponding linear inequality constraints to solve requires heavyintellectual investment in setting up an extended family of correct equations with appropriate underlyingassumptions. Fortunately, computer software is readily available to ease the emotional burden ofpsychological traffic in solving cumbersome equations but, as is always the case, the mathematician,engineer, and scientist diligently has to collaborate with it, the computer software, by generally framingup correct equations. This is one of the major qualitative (theoretical) problems which Nkrumah’sphilosophically dense text “Consciencism” in general and “categorical conversion” in particular poses tointellectuals like Dr. Dompere. He successfully overcomes the qualitative problems nonetheless.

Perhaps, the trickiest part of this entire mathematical formulation activity is converting those qualitativeideas, like patriotism, player psychology, wicked intentions of political enemies, into useful underlyingassumptions to make the nuclear family of equations algebraically functional and computationallyoperational. However, once that aim is fully realized a theoretical solution optimally worked out shoulddefinitely bring a semblance of algebraic equality or equilibrium to the “objective function.” Technicallyimplied elsewhere, the “objective function” represents a team’s loss or win in our particular case, which,in turn, depends on combined tactical manipulation and creative interaction of the variables forqualitative optimal benefit. These together probabilistically determine or predict the behavioral trajectoryof the “objective function.”

Again, the algebraicallyderived optimal solution(s) unique to the nuclear family of equations understudy has to be correctly if objectively interpreted, qualitativewise, else the wrong meanings will bewoefully misapplied to social settings or will derail the qualitative purposefulness of the “objectivefunction.” Importantly, the algebraic exercise of optimization may assume two instrumentalist forms,“minimization” and “maximization.” The former relates to “decreasing” the chances of a team’s loss andthe latter “increasing” the chances of a team’s win. Other instances of “maximization” may be enhancingthe psychophysical preparedness of a given team, while “minimization” may regard curtailing trainingexpenditure, the chances of team members’ receiving bribes from managers or owners of the opposingteam, or ensuring players do not incur excessive injuries while training for a given tournament.



This set of mathematical considerations is conceptually intricate, hence the term “fuzziness,” one of Dr.Dompere’s levels of mathematical expertise. Clearly, the concept of objective chance is not causallydeterministic, an idea constituting the bedrock of our qualitative assumptions. This is what mathematicalmodeling is fundamentally about. It is what Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere is good at. He is one of America’sbest in that regard. Besides, game theory is integral to his intellectual bailiwick, just as it was with DavidBlackwell, the great AfricanAmerican statistician, and John von Newmann, John Nash, Yaw Nyarko,Glenn Loury, among others. Game theory, an important field of rigorous mathematical analysis, isalternatively described as “interactive decision theory.”

Moreover, as already pointed out elsewhere, game theory deals with matters of cooperation and conflictwhere intelligent rational decisionmaking through testable mathematical models is the point of objectivestudy. Adam Smith’s “rational selfinterest” is not far off at all. It is applied in philosophy, politicalscience, mathematical science, marketing, computer logic and science, biology, economics and business,psychology, finance, stochastics, engineering, etc. Likewise, linear programming which essentiallyaddresses issues of optimal resource allocation has numerous applications in diverse fields, among whichare telecommunications (internet traffic, network design, queuing, call routing, etc), manufacturing andtransportation, traveling salesman problem (VeryLargeScale Integration (VLSI chip, vehicle routing,etc), crew/fleet scheduling, portfolio management (optimization), econometrics, profit maximization/costminimization, finance, agriculture, marketing, etc.

These mathematical and scientific ideas and their underlying assumptions are implicit in Nkrumah’s“Consciencism” and “categorical conversion,” which Dr. Dompere expertly teases out via hisappropriatelydevised mathematical models, that is, to test as well as to confirm their scientific viability.As a matter of principle, game theory and linear programming share a system of analytic conjunctionwith such major fields of scientific inquiry as simulation, engineering, econometrics, mathematicaloptimization, decision analysis, psychology, operations research/management science, neural networks,and the like. For instance, simulation will provide useful insights into the feasibility of our equationalanalyses visàvis Nkrumah’s “categorical conversion” in a realworld setting. Dr. Dompere is wellgrounded in these theories and many others outside his immediate professional specialties, which,incidentally, he brings to bear on the exegesis of Nkrumahism. This explains why the analytic power ofNkrumah’s mind can neither be undervalued nor his rational predictions about the fate of Africa, hisprogressive ideas about human and race relations, his wise counsel to the world, and his prophetic andrational statements on the political economy of neocolonialism be ignored.

We should add that Dr. Dompere does not approach “Consciencism” and “categorical conversion” thesame way we have done here in this essay. It is to hypothetically give readers a simplisticmathematicization or equationization of the “categorical conversion” question as put forward byNkrumah in his philosophically convoluted text, “Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology forDecolonization.” We merely want to give readers a taste of the huge mathematical and scientificchallenges Dr. Dompere has to overcome in order to make qualitative sense out of Nkrumah’sconvoluted thinking. Going back to our initial analysis, however, we may also have to theoreticallyequate “equilibrium,” “stabilizing force,” or “optimal solution” with our “objective function” in thecontext of Nkrumah’s restorative project or his intellectual desire to see the seeming internalcontradictions in African societies, occasioned by EuroChristian and Islamic influences, averaged out tothe barest minimum as a precondition for Africa’s development.

Thus, in hindsight, Nkrumah had wanted Ghana’s and Africa’s development to take off as the exemplarylife, our “objective function,” of the AfricanAmerican Dr. Ben Carson, one of the world’s leadingpediatric neurosurgeons and former Director of Johns Hopkins Hospital Pediatric Neurosurgery. Hiswidely known and read books “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story” and “Think Big: Unleashing Your



Potential for Excellence” figuratively speak volumes about Nkrumah’s own imaginative prowess,industry, foresight, and about Nkrumah’s ability to turn crushing challenges and defeats into successes.Yet the two men have one notable feature in common: To make the human mind more qualitativelyefficient and constructively operational. “Consciencism” and “categorical conversion” are fundamentallyabout the qualitative reengineering of the postcolonial psychology of Africans and about reorienting ittowards their collective selfactualization, toward their positive contributions to Africa’s growth anddevelopment, and toward improved race and human relations.

And as we remarked before, a miscalculus certainly points to misapplication(s) of the qualitative optimalsolutions. We have seen most if not all of Nkrumah’s pessimistic prophecies about Africa materializenow and then, all because African leaders have conveniently and ignorantly refused to hearken to the“objective function” of Africa’s wisest son (See Rodney Worrell’s “History Has Vindicated KwameNkrumah”; Robert Woode’s “Third World to First WorldBy One Touch: Economic Repercussions ofthe Overthrow of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah”). Yet Nkrumah’s drive to appreciate human psychology led himto other unresolved paths of serious philosophical analysis. Nkrumah even ventured into the mindbodyconundrum as others, such as Baruch Spinoza, Rene Descartes, and Antonio Damasio, have done (SeeDamasio’s “Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain” and “Descartes’ Error: Emotion,Reason, and the Human Brain”). Dr. Dompere also looks painstakingly if briefly at Nkrumah’s generalunderstanding of the mindbody problem in his overall appraisal of “Consciencism” and “categoricalconversion.”

The fact is that a thorough evaluation of human psychology is technically incomplete without aphilosophical or scientific recourse to the mindbody problem, which deals with the correlation betweenthe brain and consciousness (mind versus matter). Those observations aside, Nkrumah made Africanhumanism, social justice, and African Personality the philosophical fulcrum of his development model.These ideas are theoretically intertwined in the mathematical and scientific memory of “categoricalconversion.” Indeed, the colonial and postcolonial psychology of Africa cannot be sufficiently appraisedwithout a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between consciousness and man’senvironment. Thus Nkrumah took up the challenge. That said, according to Dr. Kwame BotweAsamoah,credit for the seminal theoretical founding of African Personality should go to Mary Kingsley.Nevertheless, we do also believe Edward W. Blyden should share in that credit as well.

Yet, after all is said and done, Dr. Dompere’s “The Theory of Categorical Conversion: AnalyticalFoundations of Nkrumahism” is a highly technical and intricate text. Among other things, this book doesnot make Nkrumah’s “Consciencism” any less interpretively comprehensible for the average reader,because that potential average reader will definitely require a high level of analytic sophistication andtheoretical grounding in mathematics (topology, logic, set theory, fuzzy laws, etc), Afrocentric theory,philosophy (ontology, epistemology, phenomenology, etc), science (physics, chemistry), conflict theory,postcolonial theory, engineering, PanAfricanism, political economy, psychology (cognitive science(consciousness); science of mind control or manipulation, etc.), African culture, etc., in order to plowthrough it just to achieve a semblance of full comprehension.

Nevertheless, in another interestingly related context, Prof. Richard H. Bell, another American scholar,has noted the signal contributions of Nkrumah’s “Consciencism” and of worldfamous Brazilian criticalpedagogist Paulo Freire’s influential text, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” to the founding of postcolonialstudies. He writes: “I think it would be fair to say that Freire’s literature along with Nkrumah’s weremajor precursors of what is now called ‘postcolonial studies’” (See “Understanding African Philosophy:A CrossCultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues,” p. 148). Finally, “categoricalconversion” is presumptively our “open system” or “objective function,” a powerful concept of whichDr. Dompere writes: “The establishment and the understanding of the mechanism of transformations and





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changes in Nkrumah’s conceptual system require the development of the theory of categorical conversionto examine conditions of qualitative and quantitative states of change and convertibility of categories.”

Further, Dr. Dompere makes note of another critical observations: “The theory of categorical conversionis not explicitly developed by Nkrumah. He, however, provides reasonable conceptual and analyticmaterials for one to develop the needed theory for the establishment of the internal mechanism forqualitative transformation and change if one has good knowledge of category theory, theory of formaland informal languages and foundations of fuzzy logic and mathematics as they relate to the principle ofopposites and basic Africentric conceptual system.” What is the solution then? He answers: “Thismonograph [The Theory of Categorical Conversion: Analytic Foundations of Nkrumahism] is about thedevelopment of the required theory which constitutes a point of entry into Nkrumah’s conceptual systemwhose analytical foundations and directions of application are provided in his book ‘Consciencism.’”

“The problem of categorical conversion is general across all scientific boundaries and socionaturalelements,” he adds. In fine, Dr. Dompere hopes to explicitly develop “the theory of categoricalconversion” and then to extend it to “a general or unified theory of categorical conversion,” a dialecticexercise in the likeness of Albert Einstein’s and others’ extension of Special Relativity to the GeneralTheory of Relativity. The success of this project, which Dr. Dompere has already mathematically andscientifically realized, signals the world’s first major original contribution to scholarship on Nkrumahand Nkrumahism!

We shall return…

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Ramblers Corner What foolish article is this? What have you said? You rambling, linguistically disturbedguy!

(click to comment on this comment)Healer0619 03:20 He is the most idiotic contributor here Everyone will come to know this fool. Feature section on






Ghanaweb used to a 'place' for enlightenment until this idiot, Bokor and Ahoofe came here. While Bokorand Ahoofe use their own minds to write on issues, this idiot

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Nyansasem0619 03:47 To Healer! Thank Dr. Kwame BotweAsamoah Dear Reader, First, pardon me for a few errors(typos/grammatical). Second, some of you readers are always complaining Kwame Nkrumah was not"smart," yet we give you a disappearing piece of his "mountains" of thinking

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)francis kwarteng0619 04:02 Who are you trying to impress? "None of his Ghanaian peers comes"? You are asking forgiveness forsome grammatical mistakes and still making elementary grammatical mistakes.

(click to comment on this comment)Ghanaian Patriot0619 04:40 To Ghanaian Patriot! Ghanaian Patriot, Deal with the substantive issues and stifle your infatuations withtopical irrelevancies. I have been nice to own up to typos/grammatical errors which could be one of thestumbling blocks to Healer's

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)francis kwarteng0619 05:00 Educate Patriot; Don't Degrade Grammar Instead of downplaying the visceral importance of grammar inwriting, you should educate Patriot that the sentence, "None of his Ghanaian peers comes close," is








correct. What is not correct is the strange assumption that Nk

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 07:44 Complains? My problem lies in all of us wanting things the easy way. Nature is complicatedly simpleand so must we. Secondly Dr. SAS says somebody wrote it for Nkrumah. Why keep the name and proofor you are into hearsay? My Brother Kwa

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Brother0619 09:05 Brothet ur a Brother Thanks for your summation. It is the same problem of ma te em ho jealousy and ferathat comes into play when ever they hear Nkrumahs name . What a pity? We REFUSE to learn becausewe do not want to go to the substance but rem

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kojo T0619 15:04 To Dr. SAS Who wrote it for him in the first place? And who revised the work in 1967? I have bothbooks, the first print and the revised version after he was overthrown. Can you please shed more lights onthis assertion you made

(click to comment on this comment)Alhassan Gangu







0619 10:07 Re: To Dr. SAS Most of Nkrumah's work was written for him...... How come Nkrumah never wrote anybook until after he became a President? My own brother wrote some of his speeches, and others wrotethe rest. He could not even finish a desse

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 10:36 Re: To Dr. SAS You have said nothing but what could you have said? Your own brother wrote hisspeeches and so it makes him the writer of his books? Nkrumah is fake and could do for Ghana whatyour brother and his CIA / Mi6 could not do for

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Brother0619 11:04 Nkrumah Did Nothing for Ghana Nkrumah did nothing for Ghana. Considering the resources thenavailable to him, he did nothing at all. Any businessman that gives Nkrumah that kind of resources willconsider whatever he did as nothing and fire him for waste







Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 11:54 Dr SAS u talk thrash now How much resource did he have The $400m dollars or less. How much do youthink the Akosombo dam cost? How much do you think it cost to put up KNUST and UCC , then the400+ industries . Look I have said it left to the ma te me

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kojo T0619 15:13 Illiterate fool Illiterate fool, you cannot talk thrash but you can talk trash. Talk is verb. Thrash is verb buttrash is noun.

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Re: To Dr. SAS Dr SAS fails to fathom the fact that Africans have a dynamism of thy own, and that theeducation system we have been subjected to thrives on us being beholden to others. We have to payothers for their ideas,you see, so any o

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Asiwome0619 11:10 No Independence Under Nkrumah! Nkrumah did not know the simple meaning of independence.Independence means freedom. But he understood independence as the right to oppress the people. Thus itis not true to say that Nkrumah fought for independence. Like Raw

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 11:22 Re: No Independence Under Nkrumah! My Brother Dr. SAS, your opinion I will respect but to talk ofbusiness and resources I am disappointed. You can not even much revenue and expenses? How muchwas the resources? Be specific and match them against the projects.

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Brother0619 12:29






Re: No Independence Under Nkrumah! Take Akosombo out. The Brits started Akosombo under a loanfacility and later pulled out. Then Nkrumah signed a ridiculous agreement with Kaiser that completed theproject. The project agreement was a sellout to American i

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 12:43 Smelly goat tender Where did Ejisu come into this? SAS is from Koforidua but your bigotry stinky goattending self cannot bottle your bigotry. If you are from the North, you better thank Ejisu people, youSavannah cow.

(click to comment on this comment)Thessa0619 20:06 Smelly goat tender Where did Ejisu come into this? SAS is from Koforidua but your bigotry stinky goattending self cannot bottle your bigotry. If you are from the North, you better thank Ejisu people, youSavannah cow.






(click to comment on this comment)Thessa0619 20:13 Re: Smelly goat tender Thanks for reminding me but your anger blinded you so u could not read what Iwrote. What I mean is that, he does not even know Kumasi. Does that make me a bigot. He is in Ghanaas of now. You can go ask him if he knows Kum

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Brother0621 11:06 Freedom = Responsibility When you lose elections and resort to violence and illegal methods to gainpower and you are check mated you call that dictatorship. NPP should learn to be responsible

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Re: To Dr. SAS SAS, by your own submission may I know why those who wrote those books forNkrumah never published such kind of writing before Nkrumah became president or afterwards? Doesn'tyour statement that how come he never wrote any b

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Brother0619 12:42 Re: To Dr. SAS Your last sentence was a blow below the belt. Remember Nkrumah tried to become alawyer and failed. I became a lawyer. Also, Nkrumah had no academic doctorate; I hold a doctoraldegree in jurisprudence. Nkrumah could not bu

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 13:01 To SAS $ Kwame Nkrumah Hello SAS, You have made another hollow testament here. I wonder whyyou compare your stay here with Nkrumah's. That is a very weal comparison to make, Brother SAS. Theera of Nkrumah's stay in America is not the same







Re: To SAS $ Kwame Nkrumah Rawlings also had a good excuse for buying Yoki Gari on credit,although a commissioned officer. Every loser has his day of excuses....Nkrumah was a complete failurehere in America, until he became a complete god in Ghana. D

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 20:34 SAS Again? "Most of Nkrumah's work was written for him......" Are you making that up or you aremaking a definitive statement. I thought you said you are a lawyer? Please stop ridicule yourself withthese stupid ranting "How com

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kosoko0619 13:03 IDIOTIC DR SAS AGAIN ? IGNORE HIM. Dr SAS disappeared from this forum recently when hisname was found in the GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS as the only lawyer on this planet who does notbelieve in EVIDENCE.Please,ignore this halfbaked lawyer.

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Kwame Bediako0622 03:18 To Dr. SAS $ Readers Hello Dr. SAS, How are you? How many presidents, etc., write their ownspeeches, from George Washington to Nelson Mandela? Most at times professional speech writers do?And Kwame Nkrumah is not different. In fac

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)francis kwarteng0619 13:17 Re: To Dr. SAS $ Readers You have to focus on the salient points I raised. If Nkrumah could not writehis own speeches, don't you think it raises enough hackles to inquire into his authorial competence? Anddoes it matter that others too do not wri

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 13:29 To SAS $ Readers Again Hello Dr. SAS, This is a subject I have spent considerable time researching. Ihave also spoken to (and read some of the major works) with scholars on both sides of the divide. Noteven a shred of evidence exists to su







Re: To SAS $ Readers Again What did you mean then by this statement in your penultimate post:"Personally I have not delved into these apochryphal claims because of their lack of substance." You,Bro. Francis, are one source of my diappointment.

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 13:56 Re: To SAS $ Readers Again Once again SAS you are wrong. I guest Nkrumah stole your opportunity toAchimota and your ticket to US . You make categorical statements without evidence. Please hate the manbut give him his due. You said you will provide ev

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Brother0619 14:37 Runing Away? Are you no more going to bring your evidence of Nkrumah's daftness to bear? Now you






seek to win Kwarteng to your of side of intellectual delinquency and dishonesty in order to castigateNkrumah? Pathetic! Let me inform you

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kosoko0619 14:37 To Kosovo, SAS, Brother, Readers Dear friends, Read my response titled "To SAS $ Nana Kwaku $Readers." Thanks.

(click to comment on this comment)francis kwarteng0619 14:49 SAS is ignorant SAS is just dis[playing ignorance. These are the people who want to be in power. Justjudge for yourselves Today it is SAS and yeaterday it was Mr Figure it out I cry for Ghana . No wonderwe cannot get ahead

(click to comment on this comment)Kojo T0619 15:20 Re: Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah’s Scientific Think Francis Kwarteng and co should please note thatthis platform is meant for the consumption of all levels of the Ghanaian citizenry. Please tone down a bitfor the common Ghanaman to at least grasp what is being put out there.

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Nana Kwaku







0619 03:51 To Nana Kwaku Dear Nana Kwaku, Thanks for your comments. However, this series has nothing to dowith those you mention in your comments. It has everything to do with the "big" mind of a brilliantGhanaian scholar who is using ma

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)francis kwarteng0619 04:42 Nana Kwaku has a point! Nana Kwaku definitely has a relevant point. The average ghanaweb reader isyour average Ghanaian, not an intellectual of your Dompere status. If you cannot reduce the level ofDompere's complex thoughts further than you have

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kwesi0619 07:57 Then God Save You And Dr, Dompreh If this is your best to make Dompreh's work more sophisticatedto the average reader then I am afraid both of you guys are aliens from different planet, planted on earthto compound the perplexities of the unsolved 'mysteries

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Mr. FigureOut0619 10:39 Re: Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah’s Scientific Think The nature of Nkrumah's evolution as the worstdictator in Ghana must point to a state of mind that is incapable of rigorous academic endeavor. Noperson as dictatorial as Nkrumah can at the same time be capable of the kind o

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 13:42







To SAS $ Nana Kwaku $ Readers. Dear Readers, Nkrumah did not have to write like Ayi Kwei Armahor Wole Soyinka for his scholarly works to be appreciated. Internationallyrecognized writers like ToniMorrison, Claude McKay, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)francis kwarteng0619 14:46 To SAS $ Writing (English) Hello Brother SAS, I just remembered an interesting fact I need to sharewith you. First, you must know that good literature (in English, say) is not always or necessarily aboutstrictly following standard rules of Eng

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)francis kwarteng0619 19:05 Kwarteng, youre too enamoured of others! You are just too crazy about other writers and scholars. Justtoo much. EVERYTHING you write is just about what someone else has written. You like throwingnames about tooooooo much. Even in your responses to others' comments

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kwesi0619 20:10 Name droppers We call those people name droppers. They try to be something they are not by trying tolet others know they know important people.

(click to comment on this comment)Ghana0619 20:50 To Kwesi Hello Kwesi, Yes, I give such references because I am relatively too young to write aboutthings I did not witness. We all do. Most of us who write positively and negatively about Nkrumah did








not know him. We all write

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)francis kwarteng0619 20:54 You carry things to excess, Kwarteng You don't convince me with your explanation, Kwarteng. We areall familiar with academic writing and rules for citation. Some of us may even have been at it longer thanyou, given the fact that I realised you were in UST in t

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Kwesi0619 22:19 Re: To SAS $ Writing (English) I read Tutuola's book when I was sixteen. If you want to put him in thesame class as Nkrumah, so be it.....Tutuola was a railway station laborer and did not profess to be ascholar. But I think you missed my point: Nkrumah'

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law0619 20:22 So have u written any books SASA despite your genius has written no Book Neither did Danquah andBusias was a pamphlet . Dud, watch what you write

(click to comment on this comment)Kojo T0619 21:10 DR SAS NEEDS PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION Ignore this IDIOT

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0622 01:51 DR SAS NEEDS PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION Dr SAS' recent idiotic rantings about the greatNkrumah has confirmed the fact that he has a mental disease,I was informed on my recent visit to Texasthat he is on pychiatric medication and it is now obvious that his situati

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Frank Appiah0622 02:06 IS DR SAS A LAWYER? In spite of the overwhelming evidence of Kwame Nkrumah's immensecontribution to the upliftment of the BLACKMAN and development of Ghana,which has earned him theaccolade "Afica's man of the millenium",this moron called Dr D

(click to read full comment or to comment on this comment)Nana Ahenkora0622 02:39 mPwEKscoZEkn km2Fne This is one awesome post.Really thank you! Cool.

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