Kwame Nkrumah
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Oct 26, 2026
AntoinetteHOST
They said the Obamas being executive producers makes this compromise.
AntoinetteHOST
They said, why would they allow a former US president who helped overthrow Gaddafi, a leader who embodied Nkrumah's vision of pan-African unity? to executive produce a film about a U.S.-backed 1966 coup.
AntoinetteHOST
Talk about it.
AntoinetteHOST
Talk about it.
Nelson MakamoGUEST
And not only that, because part of those caches...
Mbuyiseni NdloziHOST
Oh, I see, because the library has the archive of Nkrumah.
Mbuyiseni NdloziHOST
It has the archive of Nyarewe.
Mbuyiseni NdloziHOST
The archive of Kenneth Kawunda.
Mbuyiseni NdloziHOST
Miriam? Not yet.
Mbuyiseni NdloziHOST
But there's an archive that was on its way to London.
Mbuyiseni NdloziHOST
That's Nkrumah's archive.
Nelson MakamoGUEST
Yeah.
Greg CarrHOST
Philip Farner edited this.
Greg CarrHOST
This is the edition with a tribute by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Greg CarrHOST
This is the 19th document in this volume two of the readings, We Must Know the Truth.
Greg CarrHOST
Dr.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
And so there's this scene where people are coming of age, people in their early 20s, people of Caribbean and even African descent.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
Kwame Nkrumah, who becomes a prominent figure in West Africa, is also in this orbit.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
uh around this time and so people of different nationalities races genders even sort of queer formations are talking having their formative experiences some of them younger in their early 20s some of them are liberal some of them are communists some of them are trotskyists some of them are sort of part of black or labor politics um so there are tensions that will emerge but they have this formative period where their working class experiences their local race and class politics are linked to a global perspective, fighting fascism.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
They're all against fascism, but what are they for? What is the global justice they're for? When do they wanna challenge European colonialism and US sort of Jim Crow imperialism? They're also having those conversations too.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
And so there's this scene where people are coming of age, people in their early 20s, people of Caribbean and even African descent.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
Kwame Nkrumah, who becomes a prominent figure in West Africa, is also in this orbit around this time.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
And so people of different nationalities, races, genders, even sort of queer formations are talking about having their formative experiences, some of them younger, in their early 20s.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
Some of them are liberals, some of them are communists, some of them are Trotskyists, some of them are sort of part of black or labor politics.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
And so there's this scene where people are coming of age, people in their early 20s, people of Caribbean and even African descent.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
Kwame Nkrumah, who becomes a prominent figure in West Africa, is also in this orbit around this time.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
And so people of different nationalities, races, genders, even sort of queer formations are talking, having their formative experiences, some of them younger, in their early 20s.
Tejasvi NagarajaGUEST
Some of them are liberal, some of them are communists, some of them are Trotskyists, some of them are sort of part of black or labor politics.
Thom PowersHOST
Our third film is The Eyes of Ghana, directed by Ben Proudfoot and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.
Thom PowersHOST
The film tells the story of a filmmaker from Ghana named Chris Hesse, who documented the birth of Africa's independence movement in the 1950s and 60s by training his camera on Kwame Nkrumah.
Thom PowersHOST
The film premiered last year at TIFF.
Thom PowersHOST
It's just announced an innovative theatrical release partnered with the YouTube star iShowSpeed.
Nana Adwoa FrimpongGUEST
It meant everything.
Nana Adwoa FrimpongGUEST
I mean, it was a huge homecoming for me, the chance to, in a lot of ways, tell my parents' story, the story that for many immigrants gets erased when you come to North America.
Nana Adwoa FrimpongGUEST
I mean, I grew up knowing who Kwame Nkrumah was, but in school, he was never a name that was studied.
Nana Adwoa FrimpongGUEST
or revered, you know, the history was sort of buried away.
Maiko ZuluGUEST
I don't know if they call it a toga, but that's what we were told, that cloth.
Maiko ZuluGUEST
That cloth was given to another politician, Simon Kapwepe, by Kwame Nkrumah, you know.
Maiko ZuluGUEST
The significance of that is being interpreted through the works that you guys are doing, because you are making the world smaller now, you know, in as much as you see it as fun, you know, it's very critical work in, you know, uniting the continent, in concertizing our young people, you know, about the future of the continent that we want, you know.
Maiko ZuluGUEST
I was just telling you about KK getting a cloth from Kwame Nkuruma, you know.
Kwame ChristianHOST
Okay.
Kwame ChristianHOST
But they just admired Kwame Nkrumah, who was the first president
Elizabeth AyoolaGUEST
of
Kwame ChristianHOST
Ghana.
Eric BalogunGUEST
Now, not over the institutions to to get into the institutions to do what they are doing, but to challenge the status quo to, you know, overthrow that institution to get in there to do what the people need.
Eric BalogunGUEST
So, you know, the chapter is titled Guerrillas, the masses and all, which is a quote from Kwame Nkrumah.
Eric BalogunGUEST
the first president of Ghana, the late great Kwame Nkrumah, who was the president and revolutionary of Ghana, and one of the biggest leaders in Africa's history, really, world history.
Eric BalogunGUEST
But guerrillas in arms meant that we have people in the community who are very equipped to do certain things that some of the organizers may put on themselves.
Eric BalogunGUEST
You know, and sometimes we do it because we just used to doing things that we know need to be done.
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Eric BalogunGUEST
All those people that helped Malcolm get overseas.
Eric BalogunGUEST
Malcolm didn't have no money.
Eric BalogunGUEST
How do you think he got overseas to talk to Kwame Nkrumah to stay with Sekou Toure, right? How do you think he talked to Babu Ahmed, a revolutionary from Zanzibar, right, who inspired Malcolm X at that time? How do you think he got over there to do that? How do you think his family was able to sustain itself after the Nation of Islam took their home and And that relationship was divorced.
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