Howard W. French
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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had very rich ceremonial lives.
And so a funeral is not just you go to a funeral on Sunday.
There's a whole thing, right?
And it could go on for a week or two weeks or whatever and have periods when you have to, 40 days later or 80 days later or depending on the circumstance, right?
You have to mark this thing, right?
And so if you're in Nzima and you locate it right on the border with Ivory Coast, that meant actually crossing an international boundary and maybe not being allowed to and having to deal with another country
national language, French in the case of Ivory Coast, and all of the laws that pertain to that, right?
And so he grows up, not because he had studied this, but because he had lived it.
He grows up with an understanding of the injury that Africa's balkanization had inflicted on Africans.
That's really important.
And
It remains with him as a founding idea or motivation all the way through to 1963.
We Africans, we have to come together for our own good, right?
The other thing that happens, and I think as a Nigerian, you'll understand immediately what this means, because Nkrumah was from such a small, insignificant group, as he becomes a politician, he doesn't represent a threat to anybody.
Right.
No other group like Ghana has some big groups, right?
And here I'm obviously alluding to Nigeria, right?
So Ghana has some big groups which all think it's right for them to, if not just be in charge, to at least have a lot of say, like automatically, right?
And Crimea doesn't threaten the groups initially that constitute the kind of pluralities that make up Ghanaian demographics.
And so this greases his path.
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