Howard W. French

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I'd single out a couple of things.

One of them is, again, how accident of biography put Nkrumah on his path.

And I've given you already an example of that.

I'm not returning to this, but to what I said before.

But another of these accidents was the fact of his origins.

Nkrumah is born in the far southwest of the Gold Coast, now, of course, Ghana.

practically speaking, on the border with Ivory Coast.

He's born of a tiny, essentially irrelevant, politically speaking, ethnic group, right?

Part of a much bigger family called the Akan, which includes the Ashanti, which is the largest single ethnic group in Ghana.

In Kruma's group, the Nzema are not Ashanti, right?

They're irrelevant.

It's

part of the same linguistic family, but it's a strange one.

Like, the other ones can't really understand him.

Every Nzima basically speaks the majority Akan languages just to get along in the society.

So Nkrumah grows up, even as a boy, with an awareness of how the imperial...

domination of the penalties that imperial domination had inflicted on Africans.

Half of the Nzima are located in the Ivory Coast.

This produces all kinds of absurdities.

To visit your relatives, you know, Africans today, and especially Africans of that era,

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