By Charles Adom Boateng
ISBN-10: 0773468129
ISBN-13: 9780773468122
This paintings contributes to the fields of political technological know-how, sociology, improvement, economics, and diplomacy to provide an knowing of the position and effect of 1 of Africa's, and certainly the whole 3rd World's, best political figures.
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Moreover, the anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist struggle also reflects Nkrumah's conception of class. He equated all underdeveloped nations with the proletariat, and the colonialists as the bourgeoisie. In the colonialist situation, Gold Coast workers were regarded as the exploited class, while foreign firms and foreign planters (the British) were the exploiters. To overthrow foreign exploitation, Gold Coast nationalism was essential. Nkrumah admits that the intelligentsia always leads the nationalist movement.
The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (New York: Free Press, 1947), p. 358 19 James V. Downton, Rebel Leadership (New York: The Free Press, 1973), pp. 209236 20 David Apter, "Ghana: in James S. Coleman and Carl G. ), Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964), p. 304; also, Bankhole Timothy, Kwame Nkrumah: His Rise to Power (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1961), p. 78 21 Evening News, June 8,1959, p. 1; also December 11,1959.
70 Intelligentsia here refers to any African who was educated in the West or East. There were three categories of the intelligentsia. First, there were those who sup- 38 ported the new privileged indigenous class, and they were also allies of imperialism and neocolonialism. They were anti-socialists, anti-communist and supported capitalist political and economic values. 71 It is significant that Nkrumah disagreed with the notion that African classes are in their formative stages. 72 Thus, the African bourgeoisie were mesmerized by capitalist institutions and organizations as they did have direct financial stake in the continuance of the foreign exploitation of Africa.
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