--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "cellinis_ego <matthew.schneller_at_l...>" <matthew.schneller_at_l...> wrote: > White man making fun of Nkrumah's strange career = "colonistic > essentialism." > > Black man making fun of Nkrumah's strange career = "Kongi's Harvest" > = great literature. > > Right. The young Nkrumah's role in Pan-Africanism was vitally > important to the move towards self government, and he is rightly > famous for it. However, his wierd paranoia (living on a fortified > island), self-induced cult of personality, unwillingness to abandon > ineffective economic policies set a pattern that has been enumlated > by reams of petty African dictators. Both are equal parts of his > legacy, and are fair game for praise and ridicule, respectively. > > Matt Anyone who remembers the specific bonus that I'm referencing will note that it included none of the information you recount here. Had it, it would have been interesting and reasonable and worth knowing. Instead, it was a fake diary entry that had Nkrumah lamenting the fact that his followers didn't get to "bust a cap in those British." Ugh. That's all I meant...the facts (like those you note) certainly lend themselves to concern; cheap stupid bonus parts like that do not. That's really all. Steve B.
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