[ 2012-04-30 ]

Kwame Nkrumah Memorial lectures takes place in Ho
Mr Explo Nani-Kofi, Director of Kilombo Centre for
Civil Society and African Self-Determination, has
suggested the need for the ideals of Dr Kwame
Nkrumah, First President of Ghana to be adopted as
an academic discipline.

He said Nkrumah’s thoughts on governance, the
African situation in the dynamics of the social,
economic and political setting in the world, was
virtually a science that needed continual
analysis.

Mr Nani-Kofi was delivering the third in the
series of a Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lectures
organised by the Centre in Ho at the weekend.

The first of the lectures was held at Peki-Wudome
in 2010 and the second at Keta Secondary School in
2011.

Mr Kofi-Nana said Nkrumah’s ideals should not be
monopolised by any political party, as Dr Nkrumah
was a reflection of a vision which was of
relevance to Ghana and Africa.

He urged students of politics to read Nkrumah’s
writings to imbibe his ideas on issues such as
African unity and economic emancipation and as a
guide to their contribution to national
development.

Mr Nani-Kofi, who was the first Volta Regional
Coordinator of the People’s Defence Committees in
the early days of the 31st December Revolution,
said the lectures would be hyped to become an
active Nkrumaist Platform.

Mr Justice Edu Mantey, Secretary of the Kwame
Nkrumah Memorial Lectures Organising Committee,
said the lectures, to be organised annually in the
Volta Region, was expected to reinforce Dr
Nkrumah’s vision by promoting discussion.

Source - GNA

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