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The Mind of Kwame Nkrumah THE MIND OF KWAME NKRUMAH Manual for the Study of Consciencism Lang T. K. A. Nubuor BRIEFING ON THE MIND OF KWAME NKRUMAH Certainly a new wind is blowing over Africa. The spirit of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is awakened. This renewed presence is acknowledged across the continents. Not only are academicians and intellectuals reviving their interest in Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. They have also questioned and are questioning the decades of neglect in the study of the ideas of the man. Agitations are on foot at centres of learning to incorporate such studies into the curriculum of university studies in Africa. The agitations do not resist the continued studies of Western philosophers like Thales, Plato, Aristotle and others. They make a just and positive demand that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah be added to them. In the politics of Ghana today the spirit of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah looms large. Political parties which were even opposed to the policies of the man today seek a certain accommodation with his commitments. Not only does the current President remain unambiguous in his ideological commitment to the ideals of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah but also the flag bearer of the main opposition party has stated his commitment to the Pan-African project of the foremost Pan-African Proponent, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. No longer are the old folks of that opposition secure in their age-old condemnations of the Man of African Destiny in the face of the rising and increasing youth acknowledgement of that man in their own ranks. This renewed and wide spreading interest in Dr. Kwame Nkrumah has occasioned discomfort, however, in the souls of certain persons who have taken the strategic option of attacking the very intellectual foundations of the man in the name of the man. This transparent mission to distort and revise Dr. Nkrumah’s fundamental ideas and commitments in favour of what he stands against is targeted at the youth of Africa and of the Diaspora. But the spirit of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, awakened by this wicked design of low political spirits, has invoked a quick response in THE MIND OF KWAME NKRUMAH: MANUAL FOR THE STUDY OF CONSCIENCISM. This manual does not only simplify the reading and understanding of the statement of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s fundamental ideas in his book, CONSCIENCISM, through guiding the reader over its pages, chapter by chapter, but as well engages in a radical and militant combat of that distortionist and revisionist trend promoted by fifth columnists who have taken positions within what Kwame Afful calls the Nkrumah movement. Addressed to the youth of Africa and the Diaspora, this manual is the first of its kind to breakdown the technical philosophical language of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to easily accessible terms of ordinary language. It is to be read alongside the book, CONSCIENCISM, itself. In its opening pages, the Manual addresses the youth and explains the necessity of reading Dr. Nkrumah’s book in the flesh rather than the second hand or interpretative versions of it. The Foreword traces a brief history of attitudes towards philosophy in general and particularly towards CONSCIENCISM within the public domain as well as within the intelligentsia. These are attitudes that have not facilitated the appreciation of the profundity of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s thought and practice. In the Preface, vital concepts of the book are explained prior to the in-depth treatment of the chapters. This is followed with guiding the reader through the Introduction of the book, CONSCIENCISM. In this respect, a portion of Dr. Nkrumah’s quotation from Fredriech Engels’ letter that he leaves out is recalled to provide a better understanding of what he says. The importance of the Introduction rests in the fact of its revealing Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s anxiety to quicken the liberation and reconstruction of Africa through the conscious use or application of principles of thought to understand the dynamics of society in scientific terms in order to effectively change it. This special feature in Dr. Nkrumah’s intellectual attitude is well understood in comparison to the physical scientist’s attitude towards applicable research. In the first chapter, the Manual explains the difficulties of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s presentation style and devices a strategy for following the presentation easily. In this way, it leads the reader along the themes that Nkrumah explores in his development of the history of Western intellectual thought. It identifies the main themes and then the sub-themes. The reader is then led to follow the development of themes and sub-themes individually all over the chapter and shows how they are connected with each other in a logical flow. This interesting pursuit of themes and sub-themes in the pages of the book is in the nature of hunting an animal and the unforgettable experience of landing at the catch makes the idea stick and memorable. But if the first chapter explores the history of abstract thought in Western intellectual history, the second chapter shows the immediate concrete nature of those thoughts through illustrations of their social content. So that what had hitherto appeared as mind-splitting about nothing immediately comes alive with passions being aroused in this to that direction. Here, the themes and sub-themes are again in display and such themes as the concepts of egalitarianism and revolution are portrayed in their evolution within the demands of the struggles to free man from the clerical restrictions and then the clergy-oligarch diarchy that compromised increased production and freedom for the human spirit. Chapter three then takes the reader through and focuses their attention on the role of ideology in the pursuit of the perfect society and therefore in the everyday life of the individual and society. The definition of ideology offered is innovative. Every society exhibits one or more. The Manual simplifies the explanation and, ideology, in Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s terms, is understood not essentially as a written statement but as the total set of values, written and largely unwritten, that man develops for the conduct and direction of all for the freedom and fulfilment of society and the individual. The need for such an ideology out of the historically-conditioned conflicting ideologies in Africa is then advocated. The details of that ideology are outlined in chapter four. With the understanding that an ideology is displayed in and permeates every sphere of the socio-political life of a society and is exhibited in the philosophical system and theories in all studies, the Manual systematically shows those outlines. The book CONSCIENCISM finally emerges as a philosophical statement that elucidates and theoretically defends scientific socialist ideology to guide the African Revolution. The Manual, in this portrayal of CONSCIENCISM, sees Consciencism not as solely concerned with the fusion of the three dominant strands of African culture but as a complete thought system for every socio-political purpose. The final chapter of the Manual portrays the combat against contemporary revisionism and neglect conducted in cyberspace. It is a defence of the principles of Consciencism by the author of the Manual against the revisionism and neglect of apparently influential figures in the Nkrumaist and Pan-African movement. The featured figures are, respectively, Christian Kwami Agbodza, a philosophical nonentity and diminutive economic dwarf of a self- appointed Professor of Consciencism without a university constituency, and Professor Chinweizu I. Chinweizu, an inconsistent Black African racist. A special appendix in defence of the theory of categorial conversion, the heart of the thought system of Consciencism, by Peter Kofi Amponsah has been added to the three appendices in this second edition of the manual. The author of the Manual was the General Secretary of the erstwhile People’s Revolutionary League of Ghana and a staff member of the National Defence Committee that attempted to build an alternative State to replace the neo-colonial state structure in Ghana through a system of People’s and Workers’ Defence Committees upon the inception of the December 31, 1981 coup d’êtat in Ghana. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Consciencist Studies and Analyses (CENCSA). THE MIND OF KWAME NKRUMAH Manual for the Study of Consciencism Lang T.K.A. Nubuor Second Standard Edition 2013 THE MIND OF KWAME NKRUMAH Copyright © Lang T.K.A. Nubuor 2011 Published online by the Centre for Consciencist Studies and Analyses (CENCSA) in 2011 Second Standard Edition 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the permission, in writing, of the publisher. Dedicated To Eki Gbinigie who suggested the idea of a manual in place of a review Explo Nani-Kofi who encouraged the idea Beatrice Dedo Mate-Kole who remained with me when all had abandoned me Patricia Teiko Nubuor (Sister Ghana) who never forgot a brother And the Great Alhaji Ali Anum-Yemoh whose wonderful friendship sustains my hope in humanity Acknowledgement This manual has been written within very difficult circumstances. That it has been completed at all appears to be a miracle. That is why I express my heart-felt gratitude to God in the first instance for the courage that sustained me over the fifteen-month period that it took to commence writing and to complete it. For the four-year period that occupied me in preparations and writing, Beatrice Dedo Mate-Kole proved the most tolerant and helpful. Without her support, the assistance of Eki Gbinigie, Explo Nani-Kofi, Kwesi Pratt, Jnr, and Alhaji Ali Anum-Yemoh would have been in vain. Encouraging comments from promising young men like Kosi Dedey, Duke Tagoe, Kwaku Dadzie and Abraham Allotey urged me on in no small measure.
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