Howard W. French
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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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,
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?
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