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Momodou
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 Posted - 01 Oct 2007 : 23:54:00
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Nkrumah’s Children To Continue
Father’s Legacy
By Fabakary B. Ceesay
Two of the children of Ghana’s first President, Kwame Nkrumah, who are currently domiciled outside Ghana have decided to relocate to Ghana.
They have also given hints of their future desire to involve in the struggle for Pan Africanism and in the affairs of the country.
Dr. Gamal Nkrumah, a senior journalist with the widely circulating At-Ahram Newspaper in Egypt, and Samia Nkrumah, a freelance journalist and co-ordinator in Italy for the USA University of Arkansas, affirmed their resolve to return permanently to the land of their birth and unite Africa and Africans. They were at the burial ground of their parents to acquaint themselves with the progress of work at their mother’s tomb which is beside their father’s. Two of their brothers, professor Francis Nkrumah and Sekou Nkrumah, are already based in Ghana.
Gamal said his preoccupation would be Pan Africanism and made it clear that if Ghanaian politics will bog him down from Pan African Unity he will not play along with it because it will be destructive to the real purpose.
“Pan African Unity was my father’s legacy and to me it is very clear”. For her part Samia noted that the burial of their mother beside their father in Ghana is a great incentive to return to Ghana.
“Ghanaian’s are our people and the country is our country. She indicated that taking part in local Ghanaian politics was too early for her. “We as Nkrumah’s children, cannot escape the great past of our great father”. She pointed out that as the children of one of the greatest politicians Africa has produced, they could not be far away from politics. “I intent to further and promote my father’s legacy of Ghana’s development, which was associated with African Unity. You cannot talk about Pan Africanism without talking about a strong Ghana,” she said.
Samia Nkrumah is a member of the movement of African Immigrants, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) for African Immigrants in Italy. Gamal said he is committed to Pan- Africanism which apart from his father’s legacy, was the same reason his father, a black African from Ghana, married an Egyptian, an Arab African, to reinforce the unity of Africa. He noted that if Africa is not united, then Africans would remain in poverty and under-development Gamal stated that they as the children of Nkrumah had forgiven all those who had offended their family in one way or the other. He noted that one has to forgive but not to forget what happened, the pain, the damage, but there is the need to forgive in order to heal the wounds of the nation and move it forward. He indicated that once the healing process is on course, the important thing is to concentrate on the goal of making the nation develop.
“Our objective should be the advancement of Ghana in particular and Africa in general, as my father’s motto was ‘forward ever, backward never,” Gamal said.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 115/2007, 1 - 2 October, 2007
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