Wewobe

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isaac Samuel

@rhaplord

about 17 hours ago

The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900) From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland. https://t.co/EdaNAUZiec

rhaplord's tweet photo. The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.

https://t.co/EdaNAUZiec https://t.co/TI746HCGUF

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GHANA FACTS & HISTORY @GhanaianMuseum

about 17 hours ago

Footage showing how traditional Ghanaian songs, oral poetry and folktales were recorded in villages, transcribed and documented for use in schools, helping to preserve Ghana’s oral traditions — 1964.

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Great House

@xspotsdamark

1 day ago

British official Brodie Cruickshank, who spent 18 years on the Gold Coast (Ghana) in the 19th century, noted crime was barely existent in the region because of fear of the Juju. Gold could be sent hundreds of miles with a single messenger with no worries , and stolen property was easily recovered; something that astonished European visitors

xspotsdamark's tweet photo. British official Brodie Cruickshank, who spent 18 years on the Gold Coast (Ghana) in the 19th century, noted crime was barely existent in the region because of fear of the Juju. Gold could be sent hundreds of miles with a single messenger with no worries , and stolen property was easily recovered; something that astonished European visitors

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Black Journals

@blackJournals01

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The man who invented the operation that saves babies born with blue-baby syndrome had no medical degree, no college degree, and was listed on the payroll as a JANITOR. He guided the first operation from a stool behind the surgeon's shoulder, telling him where to cut. Vivien Thomas. He had been saving to study medicine when the 1929 crash wiped out his savings and the bank holding them. He took a job as a lab assistant at Vanderbilt for a janitor's wage, because that was the classification available. Within a couple of years he was running experimental surgery — developing techniques, performing operations on his own, training surgeons. He moved to Johns Hopkins with Alfred Blalock in 1941, where he was still paid as a janitor and had to enter through a back door. He was the only Black man in that building not carrying a mop. He worked out the surgical fix for tetralogy of Fallot — the condition killing infants who turned blue and died — and built the instruments for it. The first operation on a child was in 1944. Blalock, who had never done the procedure, asked Thomas to stand behind him and talk him through it. The surgeons on the paper became world famous. Thomas was not credited. Hopkins hung his portrait in 1971 and gave him an honorary doctorate in 1976. Generations of surgeons he personally trained insisted on it. He was paid as a cleaner while inventing heart surgery.

blackJournals01's tweet photo. The man who invented the operation that saves babies born with blue-baby syndrome had no medical degree, no college degree, and was listed on the payroll as a JANITOR.

He guided the first operation from a stool behind the surgeon's shoulder, telling him where to cut.

Vivien Thomas. He had been saving to study medicine when the 1929 crash wiped out his savings and the bank holding them.

He took a job as a lab assistant at Vanderbilt for a janitor's wage, because that was the classification available.

Within a couple of years he was running experimental surgery — developing techniques, performing operations on his own, training surgeons.

He moved to Johns Hopkins with Alfred Blalock in 1941, where he was still paid as a janitor and had to enter through a back door.

He was the only Black man in that building not carrying a mop.

He worked out the surgical fix for tetralogy of Fallot — the condition killing infants who turned blue and died — and built the instruments for it.

The first operation on a child was in 1944. Blalock, who had never done the procedure, asked Thomas to stand behind him and talk him through it.

The surgeons on the paper became world famous. Thomas was not credited.

Hopkins hung his portrait in 1971 and gave him an honorary doctorate in 1976. Generations of surgeons he personally trained insisted on it.

He was paid as a cleaner while inventing heart surgery.

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Kojo Easy Damptey

@EasyThePianoMan

Musician | Sessional Faculty @mcmasteru @abldmcmaster & @laurier | PhD African/Black Studies | #HamOnt #HamOntMtn #onpoli

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GHANA FACTS & HISTORY @GhanaianMuseum

4 days ago

Footage showing Esther Afua Ocloo, pioneering Ghanaian entrepreneur, founder of Nkulenu Industries and later co-founder of Women’s World Banking, speaking in 1971 about women’s empowerment, entrepreneurship, and the sacrifices she believed women had to make to succeed.

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GHANA FACTS & HISTORY @GhanaianMuseum

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Footage showing Justice Annie Jiagge, Ghana’s first woman judge and later the first female President of the Court of Appeal, discussing the barriers women faced in education and the workplace, and why Ghana needed women in leadership and decision-making, (1971).

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Jon Boafo

@JonBoafo

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🇲🇱 Mali have a new kit supplier and it’s an African-owned brand. WA Team Sport, led by Badiri “Dawala” Diakité, founder of Wati B, has replaced Airness as Mali’s official kit partner. The deal runs through the 2026–2030 cycle. The bigger story? African brands are increasingly moving beyond fashion and entertainment into sports, designing, supplying and selling kits to national teams. For WA Team Sport, Mali is a football platform and a commercial opportunity.

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Black Journals

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She was bought at fourteen by a man who assaulted her for five years and fathered two of her children. When she finally fought back and he died, Missouri put her on trial — and the court ruled she had no right to defend herself. Celia. 1855. Missouri law at the time said a woman could use deadly force to defend her honour. Celia's lawyers argued that law covered her. The judge ruled it did not — because the statute said "any woman," and Celia was not legally a woman. She was property. That was the finding. Not that she was lying. Not that it had not happened. That the protection did not extend to her, because she was a thing. She was convicted and sentenced to hang. The state waited until she had given birth — the baby was stillborn — and then executed her in December 1855. She was nineteen years old. Her story is the kind of buried history that we must never forget https://t.co/V6OJtazidd

blackJournals01's tweet photo. She was bought at fourteen by a man who assaulted her for five years and fathered two of her children.

When she finally fought back and he died, Missouri put her on trial — and the court ruled she had no right to defend herself. Celia. 1855.

Missouri law at the time said a woman could use deadly force to defend her honour.

Celia's lawyers argued that law covered her. The judge ruled it did not — because the statute said "any woman," and Celia was not legally a woman. She was property.

That was the finding. Not that she was lying. Not that it had not happened. That the protection did not extend to her, because she was a thing.

She was convicted and sentenced to hang. The state waited until she had given birth — the baby was stillborn — and then executed her in December 1855.

She was nineteen years old.

Her story is the kind of buried history that we must never forget https://t.co/V6OJtazidd

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isaac Samuel

@rhaplord

5 days ago

Warriors of the Logone region, Chad. Illustration from L'Album du Petit Voyageur Illustre (Edouard Cornely & Cie, Paris, c1900). #ethnographxt

rhaplord's tweet photo. Warriors of the Logone region, Chad.
Illustration from L'Album du Petit Voyageur Illustre (Edouard Cornely & Cie, Paris, c1900).
#ethnographxt https://t.co/ofVzSQ1FTH

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MacJordan 👨🏾‍💻🇨🇦🇬🇭

@MacJordaN

5 days ago

#Trending 🇬🇭: The murder of phone dealer Nana Yaw Kyere has put Teshie/Nungua back in the spotlights. But for Yango, Uber and Bolt drivers, the fear is not new. Years of robberies, assaults and car-snatching have made parts of Teshie–Nungua a destination many drivers simply refuse after dark. I looked at the pattern. 🧵

MacJordaN's tweet photo. #Trending 🇬🇭: The murder of phone dealer Nana Yaw Kyere has put Teshie/Nungua back in the spotlights.

But for Yango, Uber and Bolt drivers, the fear is not new. Years of robberies, assaults and car-snatching have made parts of Teshie–Nungua a destination many drivers simply refuse after dark.

I looked at the pattern. 🧵

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isaac Samuel

@rhaplord

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Barma Mata, Sultan of Zinder c. 1927 Lithograph by Alexander Yakovlev #ethnographxt

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Bright Simons @BBSimons

6 days ago

I shouldn't normally write such a piece on a matter that has yet to travel its full way in court. Yes, the MP for Asante Akyem North is innocent until proven guilty. At the same time, his story is a total indictment of the Ghana that elites have built! The whole country is on the verge of becoming a scam-factory. Let's walk through some of the highlights. The MP was grabbed off a KLM flight on 10th May by Dutch Police on an American warrant. Within a week, Parliament had found him a lawyer. The Majority Chief Whip nevertheless complained about lack of transparency on the part of the Dutch authorities. Which suggests that local intelligence and law enforcement had zero awareness. ZERO. Now we have the filla. Court records reported this week describe an 18-count indictment in the United States: 15 counts of money laundering and bank fraud, 3 of wire fraud, 6 alleged victims, and single transfers as large as $550,000, many during the pandemic. The amounts in question run to millions of dollars. Like I said, a court is yet to pronounce. What interests me, however, is the pace of this MP's rise and how it aligns so closely with the chronology of scams in the indictment. In January 2020 he opened Salt 95.9 FM in Agogo, with two of Ghana’s best-known broadcasters at the launch. That is the same year that he is alleged to have defrauded a victim of $515,000 using the bank account of his parents' broke restaurant in Chicago. A month later, he handed the National Chief Imam $4,000 and GH¢10,000, explaining that he had “succeeded after travelling outside”. By 2021 profiles said he gave cash to more than 2,000 widows a year. Then came the awards, half a dozen in about a year. A whole bevy of news sites and bloggers published with gusto about how he had assembled a business empire within the few years since he returned from the US: Wealthbridge Limited, Smart Group, Real Estate, etc. etc. The one I find most fascinating is the BOFROT. Yes, some red-faced hype-guru actually said the MP's meteoric rise came from inventing a special mix for bofrot/puff-puff and then watching his business blow up. Bofrot. Specifically his "kub" brand of the round snack. Clearly, most of us are dunces. But surely if there are such fortunes hiding in bofrot, Maa Yaa at Fanti New Town wouldn't have waited all this while for this burger to come and scoop it all up? In January 2024, the paramount chief of Agogo commissioned a 3,000-capacity mosque the MP had built, and he used the occasion to announce his run for Parliament. He later said he had “singlehandedly” funded Medikal’s sold-out night at the O2 Indigo in London in May 2024. Every single one of those spending acts line up with the exact years the indictment mention as when the big romance scam transfers were made into various accounts he controlled. In February 2024 the NPP held its primary in Asante Akyem North, a stronghold once dominated by a finance minister. The incumbent won, amid widespread allegations of vote-buying by various contestants. The indicted MP ignored that market. He went straight to the 38,000 people who would vote in December, with a mosque, a clinic, cash for widows and a radio station staffed by his hype-men. It was a landslide! 70.3% as an independent. In parliament, he went straight for the ruling party benches. How else to get close to power? CDD says the cost of winning a parliamentary nomination escalated from GH¢390,000 in the 2016 cycle to ~GH¢4 million by 2020. It found nine political financiers engaged in serious organised crime, seven of them in galamsey. IMANI has crazier intel it is still validating. Open buying season for political power fueled by galamsey. And now, it looks like cocaine is refusing to accept that galamsey alone can take the glory. In early September French customs at Dunkirk opened a container of plastic waste shipped from Ghana and found 3.9 tonnes of cocaine, worth €225 million. Ghana’s Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) links it to the network of Jos “Bolle Jos” Leijdekkers, a Dutch fugitive convicted in absentia in the Netherlands and Belgium and believed to be sheltering in Sierra Leone. Bolle Jos is said to employ Ghanaian bodyguards. Four people are before the High Court in Accra, among them a 34-year-old East Legon spa owner whom the local press calls a “big girl”, and her fiancé, known as “Accra Chief” and suspected of being the network’s Ghana point man. She says she did not know the nature of his business. They too are presumed innocent. Dunkirk was not an outlier. In March 2025 intelligence officers pulled 3.3 tonnes of cocaine from beneath the sand in a tipper truck at Pedu Junction in Cape Coast; eighteen months on, the driver and his mate have been charged and the “prime suspects” remain free. In April, Australian border officers found 320 kilograms of methamphetamine in charcoal shipped from Ghana. The opposition says a ship called MV Sankofa left Ghana after paying a fraction of its fine and was later caught with narcotics in Senegal. A mess wearing a top hat! The MP's fraud case is hardly an isolated case. In August 2025 Ghana extradited three alleged leaders, two of them styled “chairmen”, of a ring that US prosecutors say stole more than $100 million through romance scams and email fraud; one was sentenced in July to 85 months. One of the fraudsters in the long chain to that moment was or probably still is the most-followed Ghanaian on Instagram. In Interpol’s 2025 romance-scam sweep across fourteen African countries, Nigeria included, Ghana supplied 68 of the 260 arrests: more than a quarter. The Global Organized Crime Index now calls Ghana “a known hub” for romance fraud and scores the role of state-embedded actors in crime at 7.5 out of 10. Friends, we are dealing with an epidemic! With a consistent pattern. But katanomics means that there is no real national learning so expect the pattern to replicate and eventually overwhelm. Expect Big Money to keep showing up without any serious sign of genuine business acumen. Often through a diaspora triangle of Accra, London and an American city. Packaged into overnight philanthropy. Expect every gate in the country leading to prestige and power to be opened up immediately money drops on the table. Expect the Scam-Lords to continue playing on the stagnant Ghanaian sense of respectability and buy their way to palaces, mosques, churches, and dens of socialites. With an occasional radio station to boot. Expect these "glamorous entanglements" with power and prestige to buy immunity. Of fourteen major scam/fraud/drug cases I examined for this piece, ten were set in motion by foreign agencies. Ghanaian institutions predictably arrive on the scene later. To confirm, to remand, and set up committees. The country has outsourced risk management to the American FBI. Even as I write, another overnight sensation is probably cooking up the same pattern for overnight success. He or she is probably dishing out charity to widows somewhere in the country. Soon, there will be clerical blessings, then chiefly patronage, and, finally, floodgates thrown wide open. The "Dr." title follows and media coronation paves the way into parliament. As the same Ghanaian elites mouth off pious platitudes about "national development" and what have you. Howzat? (Image from midjourney.)

$BBSimons's tweet photo. I shouldn't normally write such a piece on a matter that has yet to travel its full way in court. Yes, the MP for Asante Akyem North is innocent until proven guilty. At the same time, his story is a total indictment of the Ghana that elites have built! The whole country is on the verge of becoming a scam-factory. Let's walk through some of the highlights. The MP was grabbed off a KLM flight on 10th May by Dutch Police on an American warrant. Within a week, Parliament had found him a lawyer. The Majority Chief Whip nevertheless complained about lack of transparency on the part of the Dutch authorities. Which suggests that local intelligence and law enforcement had zero awareness. ZERO. Now we have the filla. Court records reported this week describe an 18-count indictment in the United States: 15 counts of money laundering and bank fraud, 3 of wire fraud, 6 alleged victims, and single transfers as large as $550,000, many during the pandemic. The amounts in question run to millions of dollars. Like I said, a court is yet to pronounce. What interests me, however, is the pace of this MP's rise and how it aligns so closely with the chronology of scams in the indictment. In January 2020 he opened Salt 95.9 FM in Agogo, with two of Ghana’s best-known broadcasters at the launch. That is the same year that he is alleged to have defrauded a victim of $515,000 using the bank account of his parents' broke restaurant in Chicago. A month later, he handed the National Chief Imam $4,000 and GH¢10,000, explaining that he had “succeeded after travelling outside”. By 2021 profiles said he gave cash to more than 2,000 widows a year. Then came the awards, half a dozen in about a year. A whole bevy of news sites and bloggers published with gusto about how he had assembled a business empire within the few years since he returned from the US: Wealthbridge Limited, Smart Group, Real Estate, etc. etc. The one I find most fascinating is the BOFROT. Yes, some red-faced hype-guru actually said the MP's meteoric rise came from inventing a special mix for bofrot/puff-puff and then watching his business blow up. Bofrot. Specifically his "kub" brand of the round snack. Clearly, most of us are dunces. But surely if there are such fortunes hiding in bofrot, Maa Yaa at Fanti New Town wouldn't have waited all this while for this burger to come and scoop it all up? In January 2024, the paramount chief of Agogo commissioned a 3,000-capacity mosque the MP had built, and he used the occasion to announce his run for Parliament. He later said he had “singlehandedly” funded Medikal’s sold-out night at the O2 Indigo in London in May 2024. Every single one of those spending acts line up with the exact years the indictment mention as when the big romance scam transfers were made into various accounts he controlled. In February 2024 the NPP held its primary in Asante Akyem North, a stronghold once dominated by a finance minister. The incumbent won, amid widespread allegations of vote-buying by various contestants. The indicted MP ignored that market. He went straight to the 38,000 people who would vote in December, with a mosque, a clinic, cash for widows and a radio station staffed by his hype-men. It was a landslide! 70.3% as an independent. In parliament, he went straight for the ruling party benches. How else to get close to power? CDD says the cost of winning a parliamentary nomination escalated from GH¢390,000 in the 2016 cycle to ~GH¢4 million by 2020. It found nine political financiers engaged in serious organised crime, seven of them in galamsey. IMANI has crazier intel it is still validating. Open buying season for political power fueled by galamsey. And now, it looks like cocaine is refusing to accept that galamsey alone can take the glory. In early September French customs at Dunkirk opened a container of plastic waste shipped from Ghana and found 3.9 tonnes of cocaine, worth €225 million. Ghana’s Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) links it to the network of Jos “Bolle Jos” Leijdekkers, a Dutch fugitive convicted in absentia in the Netherlands and Belgium and believed to be sheltering in Sierra Leone. Bolle Jos is said to employ Ghanaian bodyguards. Four people are before the High Court in Accra, among them a 34-year-old East Legon spa owner whom the local press calls a “big girl”, and her fiancé, known as “Accra Chief” and suspected of being the network’s Ghana point man. She says she did not know the nature of his business. They too are presumed innocent. Dunkirk was not an outlier. In March 2025 intelligence officers pulled 3.3 tonnes of cocaine from beneath the sand in a tipper truck at Pedu Junction in Cape Coast; eighteen months on, the driver and his mate have been charged and the “prime suspects” remain free. In April, Australian border officers found 320 kilograms of methamphetamine in charcoal shipped from Ghana. The opposition says a ship called MV Sankofa left Ghana after paying a fraction of its fine and was later caught with narcotics in Senegal. A mess wearing a top hat! The MP's fraud case is hardly an isolated case. In August 2025 Ghana extradited three alleged leaders, two of them styled “chairmen”, of a ring that US prosecutors say stole more than $100 million through romance scams and email fraud; one was sentenced in July to 85 months. One of the fraudsters in the long chain to that moment was or probably still is the most-followed Ghanaian on Instagram. In Interpol’s 2025 romance-scam sweep across fourteen African countries, Nigeria included, Ghana supplied 68 of the 260 arrests: more than a quarter. The Global Organized Crime Index now calls Ghana “a known hub” for romance fraud and scores the role of state-embedded actors in crime at 7.5 out of 10. Friends, we are dealing with an epidemic! With a consistent pattern. But katanomics means that there is no real national learning so expect the pattern to replicate and eventually overwhelm. Expect Big Money to keep showing up without any serious sign of genuine business acumen. Often through a diaspora triangle of Accra, London and an American city. Packaged into overnight philanthropy. Expect every gate in the country leading to prestige and power to be opened up immediately money drops on the table. Expect the Scam-Lords to continue playing on the stagnant Ghanaian sense of respectability and buy their way to palaces, mosques, churches, and dens of socialites. With an occasional radio station to boot. Expect these "glamorous entanglements" with power and prestige to buy immunity. Of fourteen major scam/fraud/drug cases I examined for this piece, ten were set in motion by foreign agencies. Ghanaian institutions predictably arrive on the scene later. To confirm, to remand, and set up committees. The country has outsourced risk management to the American FBI. Even as I write, another overnight sensation is probably cooking up the same pattern for overnight success. He or she is probably dishing out charity to widows somewhere in the country. Soon, there will be clerical blessings, then chiefly patronage, and, finally, floodgates thrown wide open. The "Dr." title follows and media coronation paves the way into parliament. As the same Ghanaian elites mouth off pious platitudes about "national development" and what have you. Howzat? (Image from midjourney.)$

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isaac Samuel

@rhaplord

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Travels of a 17th century Abolitionist from Angola to the Vatican

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@rhaplord

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Queens and Kings of the Congados, Brazil by Carlos Julião 1775-1790 https://t.co/38xvdzRFPh

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isaac Samuel

@rhaplord

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Portrait of King Garcia II Nkanga a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba, c. 1641

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isaac Samuel

@rhaplord

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Two centuries before the formal abolition of Slavery, an African prince from the kingdom of Ndongo (modern Angola) spearheaded an international legal case against Spain, Portugal, and Italy, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity https://t.co/mYlk2il1I3

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Wewobe @mizwewobe

6 days ago

Caught caughter caughtest

Phoebe @feeebbaaayy

7 days ago

This girl is so dramatic omg Calling me nyornuvie as if she’s a nyaga 🤣

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@feeebbaaayy Aye aye aye!!!

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Sovereign Media

@sov_media

8 days ago

NKRUMAH’S AMAZING DEEDS Happy birthday to the great Osagyefo (a.k.a. the Redeemer, as he is called in the Akan language), Dr Kwame Nkrumah, who was born on this day in 1909. Kwame Nkrumah was a brilliant Pan-African strategist, theorist, and political leader. He is famous for having "brought Pan-Africanism home to Africa," as some say. After attending the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1945, Nkrumah abandoned his doctoral dissertation to return to Ghana and liberate his country through a positive action campaign. He founded the Convention People's Party, a mass organisation that understood his slogan, "Seek ye first the political kingdom", meaning that African countries should prioritise independence above all else. However, independence alone was not enough for Ghana. He understood that Ghana's independence "is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa." Throughout his entire life, he fought tooth and nail for the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism. Nkrumah's contribution to the African liberation cause earned him respect and admiration across the continent. He also contributed to Pan-African thought by authoring several revolutionary books, including the widely read 'Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism.' In this video, Sovereign Media’s Inemesit Richardson highlights some of Nkrumah's many accomplishments.