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.
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