Nkrumahism as an Ideological Embodiment of Leftist Thought Within the African World

Abstract

One of the most serious deficiencies facing the African World today is its apparent lack of ideological clarity and unity. This grave weakness leaves the African masses without that most effective weapon to harness their energies throughout the world in an effort to guide them toward collective action in the pursuit of common aims and objectives. This problem, nay crisis, is especially distressing in light of the abundance of historical evidence that substantiates the supposition that Africans on the mainland and those in the diaspora have been suffering from and responding to a common historical experience in a manner that has not been qualitatively different from one region of the world to another (Padmore, 1931; James, 1969; DuBois, 1970). That this common historical experience has been shaped by centuries of political-economic domination resulting from European insufficiency and expansionism is without question.