I applauded. My sympathies were entirely with Nkrumah.
Independence! The concept wasn’t strange to me. I had been celebrating July 4 with fervor ever since I could remember.
But Anokye raised his right index finger.
“Wait,” he said and again, “Wait.”
“The state which Nkrumah inherited was a colonial state.
“He was aware of his weakness. Economic independence for Ghana was not on the cards. However he hoped to use Ghana’s political independence as a stepping stone to the creation of a united Africa. The odds were stacked against him. For one thing the leaders of the newly independent African states had no intention of giving up the powers of patronage which they had inherited from their former colonial masters. He was forced to narrow his ambitions to the industrialization of Ghana.
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