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Nkrumah’s 100th birth date
celebrations launched
Accra, Jan 28, Ghanadot/GNA – A centenary celebration in
memory of the birth of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first
Republican President, was launched in Accra by an
organisation dedicated to his memory and ideology.
Kwame Nkrumah Foundation (KNF), the organisation is
dedicated to the memory and championing its ideology
launched the year-long celebration which would see a
re-enactment of the declaration of the independence day of
Ghana.
Series of public lectures would also be held to whip up
Nkrumaism among people especially the youth.
Launching the celebration in Accra, Professor Agyeman Badu
Akosa, President of the KNF said, Nkrumaism was still
relevant so long as poverty and deprivation continued to
afflict Ghanaians.
Professor Akosa, who is also a Pathologist and Lecturer at
the University of Ghana Medical School, said the KNF would
work under the code name “Save Ghana now” to ensure that the
poverty gap was bridged in fulfilment of the dreams of the
first President.
He mentioned some factories and developmental interventions
of Dr Nkrumah, which he said were left to lie fallow thereby
contributing to the low level of the country’s development.
He defended the legacy and regime of the late President
saying he was not an autocratic leader as being portrayed by
some members of the society.
“We of the KNF pledge that we shall work tirelessly to
redeem the image of our selfless leader Osagyefo”.
He said in view of Nkrumah’s passion for education, the KNF
would create an ideas bank where writings shall be invited
from the public and the most creative submissions awarded
with prizes.
He said the overthrow of Nkrumah was a dark day in Ghanaian
politics and also the beginning of the developmental woes of
Ghana.
He called on President John Atta Mills to initiate the
process of making September 21, the birth-date of Nkrumah as
a national holiday and pay him his well earned tribute.
As part of the activities for the celebration, the KNF hoped
to create a virtual library on the premises of Kwame Nkrumah
Mauseleum where speeches, documentaries and his writings
would be accessed.
GNA
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