The Nation Must Secure Nkrumah’s Diary

Regicide is the act of killing a king or ruler and in all ancient cultures regicide carried a curse, especially if the ruler was unjustly sent to the other world. Ghana, more or less, committed regicide on February 24, 1966 when the President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown. The issue here is not whether he deserved to be overthrown, but six years later he died in a hospital in Bucharest of what Amilcar Cabral called the “cancer of betrayal”. Between 1966 and his death in 1972, Nkrumah expressed his political views publicly in a number of books, notably Dark Days in Ghana, Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare, The Struggle Continues and Voices from Conakry.

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We can’t build Ghana with ANGER and mayhem

The Kennedy Agyapong episode confirms my fears that we are not ready to build our country soon. How can we do so when everybody is angry with the other and behaves as if nothing but anger is the weapon for national reconstruction? A divided people cannot rebuild their country. That’s my beef.

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