An Appraisal of SekouToure’s Ideological and Integral Nationalism

Abstract

The paper examines the political philosophy of SekouToure on ideological and integral Nationalism in Guinea. The study started with discussing structures of biographical and social experience of Toure and the concept of ideological and integral Nationalism. The study threads his philosophical reflections by illustrating and examining Party and State, National Democracy and African socialism. Toure refined, re-emphasized, enriched updated and strengthened these fundamental elements. The paper submit that his ideological positions is central to nation-building, and ideological education as essential for welding together Guinea from disparate ethnic groups and instilling patriotism those ideas. The paper is analytical and adopted the use of secondary method of data collection. Despite some of the positive advancements in the social infrastructure-education, health, the evolution of confidence in the Guinea women, the development of national languages, the popular resistance of the Guinean laboring masses and progressive sections of the petty bourgeoisie against revolution from above, underscore the fact that the emancipation of the working peoples must be the task of the working classes themselves. The findings on the philosophy of Toure show that, the post-independence Guinea was caught up in a political and economic crisis originating from Guinea's continued integration into the world-wide capitalist system; its further exposes that the crisis is compounded by an ideological confusion, and revolutionary rhetoric, based on the revolutionary myth of Ahmed Toure as an institution synonymous with the Democratic Party of Guinea.