<<Print>>At 4:00 tomorrow (24th February, 2013), Nkrumah’s progressives socialist and the general public will troop to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Accra to mark the 49th anniversary of the overthrow of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Founder of the state of Ghana.
The coup was organized by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America with the assistance of other western collaboration from the Ghana Police Service and the Armed Forces on February 24, 1966. 10 years ago, the Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) declared the day as “Ghana’s Day of Shame” and it has been observed as such since then.
This year, the day is being marked with a public forum which will be chaired by Dr. Gamal Nasser Adam, a lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages, university of Ghana.
The Principal Speaker will be Dr. Yao Graham, coordinator of the Third World Network and a respected leftwing activist.
Other speakers will be Comrade Kwasi Pratt, Jnr. Editor of The Insight and Nana Yaa Gyamfua of the All African People’s Revolutionary party.
Organizers say they have invited youth and students groups, trade Unions, women’s organizations, political parties, members of the diplomatic coups, ministers of state and Parliamentarians to attend.
The broad theme of the forum is “Nkrumah Never Dies, Battling Neo-Colonialism, The Last Stage of imperialism.”
Dr. Graham is expected to focus on Ghana’s current energy crisis and the Nkrumaist perspective.
Both Nana Yaa and Kwasi Pratt will pay attention to the history of Modern Ghana and its distortion for partisan political purposes.
Previous speakers have included, Professor Akilagpa Sawyer, Atta Britwum, Agyemang Badu-Akosah and Dzodzi Tsikata, Dr. Gamal Nasser Adam and Madam Emalia Arthur.
Interest in this year’s event has been lightened as a result of the observance of the 50th anniversary of the death of J.B. Danquah, one of the nosy critics of Nkrumah.
The keynote address was given by Nana Addo Dankwah-Akuffo-Addo, presidential candidate of the new Patriotic Party (NPP).
He blamed Nkrumah for the death of J.B. Danquah for prison and said he and the Danquah family had forgiven Nkrumah.
Danquah was imprisoned under a suspicion that he was associated with a plot to assassinate Nkrumah.
Throughout the World, Nkrumah is acknowledged as an inspiration for the national liberation struggle in Africa south of the Sahara.