Keeping Nkrumah`s name in print
One man`s lifelong crusade
| Posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
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Dr Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana
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As Ghana's Golden Jubilee of Independence approaches, books by Ghana's founding fathers are also in demand, especially those of Ghana's first Prime Minister/President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Dr. Nkrumah authored over twenty titles during this nine-year rule of Ghana and during his six-year exile in the Republic of Guinea, following the coup d'etat, which ousted him on 24 February 1966, 40 years to the day this week.
Mr. Emmanuel Tonyiga, General Manager, University of Ghana Book Shop, Legon, has paid a day's working visit to Hensteve Publications Limited, Pavilion E, Ghana International Trade Fair, La, Accra, to acquaint himself with, and to be updated on the stock-range of Ghanaian, Continental and Diasporian Pan-African Authors' books available, especially those authored by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, for whose books the university's book-shop has been increasingly inundated with numerous enquires from students, research-writers, academia book collectors in Ghana, Africa and World-wide.
Kwame Nkrumah became the Prime Minister of Ghana, on March 6 1957 to June 30 1960 and President of the first Republic of Ghana from July 1 1960 to 24 February 1966. The Republic of Guinea described Nkrumah as the "The Greatest African". This was engraved in solid gold on his coffin. The BBC also proclaimed him as "The Millennium Man of Africa".
Hensteve Publications Ltd. is the Pan-African author's books distributor, in West Africa and holds the agency for PANAF Books, London, UK, established by Nkrumah before his death in Bucharest, Romania in 1972 for the propagation and promotion of his books as well as those of other leading Pan-Africanists.
Mr. Stevens Gbafah, Managing Director of Hensteve in discussion with Mr. Tonyiga, emphasized that Kwame Nkrumah envisioned a lot, rarely portrayed through his publications, for political, economic, social and industrial solutions to the myriad problems facing Ghana and Africa. "No wonder", said Mr. Gbafah, "our university's book-shop is, today, being inundated with such enquires about his books…The Osagyefo's books were wickedly burnt and banned from publication and circulation by the military junta that removed him from office in 1966.
“I was a news reporter at the time, and I have always remembered the situation with pain and confusion as I could not imagine nor understand why books, especially those by Nkrumah should be burnt."
Among Nkrumah's topical publications include: Kwame Nkrumah- Autobiography; Kwame Nkrumah - A Biography, The Dark Days in Ghana; Ghana, The Way Out; Africa Must Unite; Neo-Colonialism-The Last Stage of Imperialism; I Speak of Freedom; Class Struggle in Africa; The Rhodesia File, The Challenge of the Congo; The Struggle Continues.
The others are: Revolutionary path; Forward Ever; Voice From Conakry; Kwame Nkrumah, The Conakry Years; Essential Features of Kwame Nkrumah; Conciencism; Kwame Nkrumah's Axioms; Hand book of Revolutionary Warfare; Revolutionary Path; The Spectre of Black Power; What I mean By Positive Action; The Big Lie; Two Myths and Towards Colonial Freedom.
Mr. Tonyiga highly commended Mr.Gbafah and his establishment for resuscitating the literary of Nkrumah, and wished him well for effective sustainability.
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