Howard W. French
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first heard Dec 2025
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It makes it easier for him to rise because...
Nobody thinks this is going to mean domination by the Ashanti or domination by the Fanti or domination by the Ewe or domination by anyone else, right?
And so there's that.
What else about Nkrumah would I single out?
Nkrumah was... The other remarkable thing to me about his story is, in a lot of interviews I've done about this book, interviewers are eager to dwell on Nkrumah's failures, Nkrumah's failings.
So, after all, didn't he become an autocrat?
After all...
As I've said already, didn't Pan-Africanism fail?
You know, there's lots of these kinds of questions.
What's most remarkable to me, actually, is without needing to deny that Nkrumah does indeed turn toward authoritarianism in the latter part of his rule,
The scope and ambition and the range of solutions that Nkrumah tried and experimented with as a way of helping develop Ghana and make it economically powerful, not for Ghana's own purposes, but indeed on behalf of this idealistic vision of Pan-Africanism, which he never abandoned.
right?
So he wants to build a hydroelectric plant, which the West strings him along with or strings him along over for years, right?
Crucial years of his rule.
There's one way to think about this as what an unrealistic thing, what a maniacal idea.
I don't believe either of those things.
And Cromer's vision was we have to industrialize quickly or else we will never escape from domination.
So that is part one.
Part two is we have natural advantages
in our landscape for hydroelectric power.
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