[BEST OF] Kwame Nkrumah: The Great Pan-African Revolutionary Leader of Ghana

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Nicholas Richard-Thompson and Tunde Osazua from the Black Alliance for Peace join Breht to examine the life and legacy of Kwame Nkrumah—anti-colonial revolutionary, Pan-African visionary, and the first president of an independent Ghana. From leading the charge against British colonial rule to his bold attempts to unify the African continent under a socialist banner, Nkrumah’s story is one of profound courage, political brilliance, and unfinished dreams. We explore his writings, his revolutionary vision for a liberated and united Africa, and the forces—both foreign and domestic—that sought to dismantle his project. Nkrumah’s legacy still burns in the hearts of those fighting imperialism today, and this episode brings his voice back to the forefront of revolutionary memory.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.
0:08.5	On today's episode, we have back on the show Nicholas Richard Thompson and Tunday Osawa from Black Alliance for Peace.
0:17.1	We've had them on a few times in the past to talk about Afrikaam, Uprisings in the Sahel, et cetera.
0:22.8	They're back on the show this time to do a full episode on a historical figure
0:26.4	that I've been wanting to cover for many years here on RevLev, for various reasons,
0:30.6	never quite got around to it, but is a really interesting and crucial figure of 20th century socialism
0:36.1	and Pan-Africanism and anti-imperialism and
0:38.5	anti-colonialism, and that is the one and only Kwame Nakruma.
0:42.8	So Nick and Tunday are back on to talk about Kwame Nakruma's life, his work as political
0:49.4	leader of Ghana, his intellectual legacy, and it's just a really fascinating conversation around a figure that, you know,
0:56.5	more people on the revolutionary anti-colonial and anti-imperialist left should absolutely
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