The Centre for Africana Studies (CAS) of the African University College of Communications (AUCC) has launched the Nkrumaist Review: Pan African Perspectives on African Affairs at AUCC’s Discovery House Campus at Adabraka.

According to Prof. Kofi Asare Opoku, Vice President, Institutional and Vision Advancement of AUCC and Chairman for the Launching, the Journal was the Centre’s humble contribution towards the centenary of one of the greatest Pan Africanists of all time, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

Speaking on the purpose of the Launching, Michael Williams, Editor of the Nkrumaist Review and Director, Centre for Africana Studies, said that it was a shame that the average tertiary student in Ghana or Africa knew very little about great Pan-Africanists like George Padmore, Ahmed Sekou Toure, Amilcar Cabral or our very own Kwame Nkrumah and yet knew relatively more about western heroes and heroines. He said it was in this vein that the journal had been published to provide a forum for the rigourous study, discussion and debate on Nkrumaism or Panafricanism.

The Special Guest of Honour for the Launching, Dr. Vladmir Antwi Danso of the Legon Centre for International Affairs (LECIA) moved the entire audience to tears as he recounted terrible stories that were concocted by Dr. Nkrumah’s detractors to humiliate him and his family simply because they did not really understand what Dr. Nkrumah stood for.  He therefore recommended books like Africa must Unite and Revolutionary Path to his audience to read and begin to understand what Nkrumaism was all about.

Dr. Antwi Danso also  explained to the audience that the ideals that Dr. Nkrumah fought for  decades ago - African Unity and Development for all - were now being vigorously  sought  by  both Continental Africans  and Diasporan Africans  as they struggle to  unite and fight for a genuine African renaissance.