The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah
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- In this episode, we bring to your view the rise and fall of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president. #HistoryVille
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
02:33 Early Life and Education
05:21 Independence Fighter
07:57 Ghana’s First President
11:25 Achievement as President
13:53 The Fall of Kwame Nkrumah
16:08 Kwame Nkrumah’s Legacy
21:05 Next Video
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE "THE RISE AND FALL OF NKWAMI NKURUMA"
IT IS THE RISE AND LEGACY OF NKWAMI NKURUMA
HE NEVER FELL ...HE IS AFRICA'S HERO OF ALL TIMES
He died in exist not in Ghana thanks
It's the Nkrumahists spread over throughout the planet and inside of Afrika that will finish the revolution.
Nkrumah never die
Kwami Nkruma never dies
The high priest of Pan-African
As a Ghanaian here I’ll give you your flowers on this video 💐💐💐
Dr Nkrumah even though u are dead thanks for making Ghana a mature state and county😂🎉❤😭
Dr kwame nkrumah was a great visionnary,a dreamer and philosopher,who no african leader can compare to or with,he is indeed a freedom fighter for the black africa race who achieve so much for the whole africa,nkrumah never dies,he still live in our heart.
Thanks for highlighting his strength, weaknesses, flaws and all. Some Gh folks like to paint him as though he was a saint. How can future leaders learn from his mistakes if we don't acknowledge them?
Exactly! I'm not into hero worship and so I appreciated this video extremely well. It's one of the few very balanced accounts of Kwame N'krumah's life and legacy that I have viewed. The man was great and of noble intentions but he had lots of fatal flows, personally and politically. I very admire him but not like a lot of Ghanaians do when they ignore or feign ignorance of his deep flaws.
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Yes, we the youth know of these things.. but the reason why we paint him as a saint is because his legacies still live on till date.
He's the type of President we have never had.
Bro, it's time you acknowledge him.
At least he never stole from us.
Baba Kwame Nkrumah is one of the greatest ever Pan African leaders in our history.
Baba Kwame Nkrumah built so many institutes, industries, factories etc.
Baba Nkrumah encourage Africans globally to reconnect with their roots and realities.
Baba Nkrumah was so selfless and so bold that Africans should be independent and don't depend on anyone.
I have been fortunate enough to read two of my favourite books he wrote, and that's Dark Days in Ghana and Africa must Unite.
From Ghana Airways to Tema and from Aksomobo to Ghana Highway Patrol these are the self-achievement of Osagyefo Doctor Kwame Nkrumah 09-72.
Of course Nkrumah became paranoid when you have a vision of advancement for your people but know that the enemy is always lurking in the shadows and are looking to conspire against you with those who look like you, paranoia ensues and a once rational person starts suspecting that everyone is out to get them resulting in a dictatorial governance, the same happened to Adi Amin. Once the enemy has destroyed your sense of security they go for the kill to destroy you, that's what happened to Nkrumah. The enemy still walks amongst us pretending to be a friend of Africa.
Correction,The UGCC was not formed by JB Dankwa please, instead Paa Grant who was a millionaire by then.
The dreamer of Ghana a life will lived rest in peace😭😭😭😱
Very interesting. Thank you. It seems that he had good intentions for the continent but he forgot about the people of Ghana.
That is never true. He built many factories than any leader. Everything in ghana now still from what he achieved in the few years he stayed in power.
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May God bless you and our ancestors strengthen you to keep it up.
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Very balanced history... Keep it up... Kwame Nkrumah is my number one African leader. However, the main flaw was his hasty attempt to industrialize Ghana under a very short period. But I still love him regardless of his flaws. He's had a selfless attitude towards the development of Africa... Compare his flaws to that of the current crop of African leaders, and you will call him a hero....
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Nkrumah was indeed a hero, his Ghana industrialization efforts should have been seen as a plus. Why because those leaders who sit tight never accomplish anything. Since Nkrumah departs the scene, we have become professional bench warmers, sitting tight doing nothing while our people suffer. It's better for the contemporaries to endure so future generations may get the opportunities to grow and prosper.... That's what our colonizers and the USA understand while we Africans don't.
Within a short period? Are you kidding? Do you want progress or not?
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Great leader
Despite all his weaknesses he still one of the best leaders Africa has had, he loved Africa and Africans.
Nkrumah was definitely onto something, and eventhough it seemed extreme at the time, the concept has actualy been tested and proven in modern day politics.
To me, what the master teacher was insisting upon could also be reassembled to mean such as the 'uniting power' that the institution is afforded.
For instance, let's form a real and proper Union, be it a commerce based union, strategic union, agricultural, metallurgy based, mining based union, whatever, simply let 'we'[sic] form what can be seen to be a real and proper union; that's all.
Let for there to be real and proper institutions that are run for the sole purpose of catering to the wants and needs of our people worldwide.
This isnt too much for anyone to ask, this is something one should take away from the progressive and productive ideology that Nkrumah had going on for him.
Africa is a very rich continent filled with rich natural resources.. God bless Africa🌍
It would seem the problem then is its people 🤷🏽♀️
Unfortunately the people all over the world enjoy good life due to abusing Africa. Africans sleep deeply for some reasons while thieves empty mother Africa home.
Let his dream be a reality! British still hold Ghana in their hands…
The commentary on this documentary is quite interesting . The Eurocentric narrative of Africas freedom fighters evolving into monstrous power hungry tyrant baffles me when somewhat educated documentarians fail to take heed of the investigative work needed for an intelligent Afrocentric version of the rulership of these freedom fighters . It’s beyond imperative that a research as to why almost all of Africas first prime ministers and presidents will turn into what most basic and Eurocentric minded African intellectuals, historians and documentarians such as the one I’m commenting on Will deem as totalitarians and draconian leaders … Post colonial African leaders encountered the most egregiously horrific propagandist tactics ever in the history of modern human civilization. And there are plethora of documents to prove that -as the current unclassified CIA documents have supports these claims . Nkrumah of Ghana Hailee Salasie of Ethiopia Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya Lumumba of the Congo Bela Tafawa of Nigeria , should I go on ? Togo , Egypt Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and many more African leaders who had taken the decision to stand up against the West and it’s hemispheres where all painted with the same wide brush of wickedness towards their inhabitants and or subjects - they were all power hungry and or socialist with communistic ideals that bought in about hunger and economic devastation.What these intellectuals and documentarians failed to dig into are the REASONS BEHIND THE ULTIMATE USE OF POWER BY THESE AFRICAN LEADERS . Nkrumah for instance had about 27 attempted murders and coups prior to his “ultimate grip of power” which was done to protect his government and in the grandest schemes of things the peoples best interest..The French , English and the Americans have all formally recognized their influences over the ousting of almost all the leaders of these newly independent African countries and you think it’s just due to the want of power is why the entire heads of states of these African countries ideals failed to bare an fruits ! If these are y’all’s take on heroes like Nkrumah then I am not quite sure you understand what Africans enslavement and colonization was all about - and y’all not even close to comprehending how white supremacy works !
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dude was basically "not saved but under new Management"
he wanted to be the african emperor
@@laisphinto6372 don’t be stupid .. it takes an Emperor to fight other empires .. how small are your minds?
It takes an Emperor to fight empires . How small minded to think power is not bloody ..
That's correct. There are forces that do not want us free.
Everything Nkrumah did was for a reason including the one party state. He was not a saint but he loved his country and continent more than the leaders we have today
So much so that he left it bankrupt?
Name me one saint
I can't but feel like some info is missing...
Ya he was a Marxist.
The same people who gave him 22,000 out of 23,000 votes chased him out and jubilate like never before. My people never joke 🤣🤣
Kwame Nkrumah did so many good things for Ghana and Africa but he was a dictator and authoritarian in Ghana. In 1964 changed Ghana into one party state and made himself a life president.
This is obviously a very nice channel. It will be good if u tell the history of religious figures like Muhammad, Jesus, Paul, Buddha, etc and entrepreneurs like Ford, Bill Gate, Mark Zuckerberg... These might even give more viewers.
I didn't know Bill Gates was a religious leader. Thanks for enlightening us😂😂
They need make movie about kwame also other African leaders English French and Portuguese and local languages of Africa?
The man was 100 years ahead of the people in his way of thinking. If Africa had become another USA, we would by now have become a force to record with, socially and economically. It is high time Africa emphasizes teaching history of African leaders, particularly, people like Dr Kwame Nkrumah. It is high time we stop emphasizing on histories of our colonial masters.
Very intresting. If Africa had had many other African leaders like Nkruma. I think the continent would not have been in such a mess today.
Man proposes God disposes.
Aaameen
Unfortunately, he died without seeing his dream of a United Africa
The greatest African leader
Salam dari indonesis
They say Arab and African cannot live together you see why he married that empress colonial power will not like that 😁
Nkrumah never dies
He suggested with a sickness cancer
11:51 How'd he marry someone who he couldn't even talk to?! What tha....
It was common even in Eurpe and other continents. It is about politics.
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It was political.
Those days, the middle east of Africa didn't see themselves as Africans because they are not black so on his dream to unity africa, he thought it necessary to marry from there
@@ebenezerasamoahfokuoh2814 You are making things up.... The Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser of Egypt and Nkrumah of Ghana were friends....before Nkrumah got married to his wife, he had had a relationship with another Egyptian woman who was at the time working in Ghana. This woman left Ghana and returned to Egypt while pregnant with Nkrumah's baby. So the plan was to go find that Egyptian woman so he would marry her but someone else was found because the other woman got married upon her return to Egypt.
To unite Africans we should do it by force
The historical perspective of African leaders should be putting records straight and not to twist the facts
Desperate situation needs Desperate action: if you rule over fickle minded people they will call you dictactor. It is only those you don't know the challenges he face as a head with stiffneckeder military who have no clue as to how to rule a nation like Ghana 🇬🇭 with ignorance of the oppressors ideology will doubt his contributions to the black race and black people.
This is Bais story
No, no, that is misinformation,Ghana suffered economic setbacks those days because the West intentionally lowered prices of Ghanaian redources and did everything to destroy Dr.Nkrumah's Govt because of his anticolonial and African unity objectives Nkrumah pursued
The last version of this video is not the actual fact. The PDA was against his enemies as it is currently existing in the US and UK to deter any political enemies, such laws are being used.
I prefer the voice of that man.
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Dr Nkrumah rules in Ghana just 6 years, because he was not a pulpit leader, he done 10 time better done all this Ghanians leaders ever comes to rules Ghana
No
He turned a dictator when he realized his life was in danger
The numerous attempts on his life
He only wanted to keep his enemies at bay
But these UGCC guys were resourceful and very hungry for power
And that's how they've been till now
Some of their elements are still in government
Ostentatious lifestyle
That's all these guys know
In terms of nation building they have failed woefully
Shuuuut Up!!
The rise and fall sounds stupid ... the rise of Kwame suffices
This video is just an over-simplistic descriptions or opinions on Kwame Nkrumah's reign. Not taking into accounts many of the difficult yet life-threatening political oppositions of the time. It is without much regard to the brutal effects and nature of the geo politics of the time, imperialism, colonialism, racism, the cold war, betrayals, and the estwhile agenda and tendencies of the neo colonialist of the time. In short, it's just too easy now to rant and call Nkrumah names until one is faced with similar decision making difficulties.
Your comment that at the point of his dispose there was shortage of is not true and then again the planners of that coup was not solely the police and Military regimes but foreign imperialist. You have to speak the truth.
Kwames did not fall he still lives on in is
Kwame never dies!
And the role of devious west against progressive leaders in Africa in his “fall”?
His life was all about politics
He was visionary but selfish. He did not treat those who discovered him, the j b dankwah and the rest
No, he wasn't selfish.
In what way was he selfish?
Either you like him or not.
Which selfish, those people you are talking about were rather selfish. Nkrumah was patriotic and they did everything possible to bring him down. The good things Nkrumah did even with the few resources and fierce internal and foreign opposition, Ghana still benefits from those even today.
Another sad case of an African leader who strangled himself with his own halo. Shame.
Nkrumah was ousted by the help of 🇺🇸 CIA.
No. His delusions of grandeur did the job.
He truly had a good plan for africa but Cold War was on and USA was looking at him as he mingled with Russia then had to stop him. Some Ghana would say his Jesus of Ghana forgetting that the man was a tyrant. He was the leader all c#orrupt leaders in africa look upto mostly Nigeria
dint forget he split together and divided the ewe people
@@laisphinto6372 sure
@@laisphinto6372 why did that happen ? Didn’t the ewe people want no part of Ghana?
Where do you live!!??
Clown??
Myopic nincompoops here
THIS IS PROPAGANDA VIDEO
ARE WE NOT FEELING THE HEAT FOR EVERYTHING HE SAID
The dreamer of Ghana a life will lived rest in peace 😭😭😭😭😱
The dreamer of Ghana a life will lived rest in peace😭😭😭😱