Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nkrumah Article

Claude Ake was right on "Social Science as Imperialism". But this time by the  uncritical captives. 

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From: ibdullah@gmail.com
Date: 24/04/2015 01:53 (GMT+01:00)
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Cc: alimufuruki@infotech.co.tz
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nkrumah Article

Abu:
Enough said. Let those who seek to rebury Nkrumah continue with their morbid project.
As Cabral, and before him Lumumba, reiterated at Nkrumah's funeral in Guinea-Conakry the task of making sense of what this or that individual did in history is a political question. The unfortunate happening here is that it is not the history written in Brussels or Paris or London( as Lumumba fingered in his historic independence speech)that has set out to rubbish Nkrumah but the history written by a particular specie of African intellectual dedicated to reproducing the very project Nkrumah labored to transcend.
We live to learn; we learn to live!
Ib
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> On Apr 24, 2015, at 12:20 AM, "'Abubakar Momoh' via USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Dear Prof. Mufuruki,
> I read your 19-page  Lecture on Nkrumah, delivered last week, l guess, in Ethiopia;  it added nothing original or new to our knowledge of the subject. Everything you wrote there have been said over 40years ago by his critics. I thought you will transcend the hero/villain discourse to do a rigorous analysis by bringing refreshing insights to our understanding Nkrumah. For you, abuse is a substitute for analysis.
> You demonstrated no knowledge of the context of the rule by both Osei Tutu and Opoku Ware; you have very limited knowledge of the interplay of forces in the era of their rule.
> I wrote my Ph.D thesis on Nkrumah, l didn't seek to celebrate him, neither did l vilify him. I sought to understand the dynamics and historical conjectures and trajectories that explained what he did.
>  I am disappointed that in spite of your vacuous claim to reading a lot on Nkrumah your only or major reference was an Encyclopedia of Geography! And you uncritically regurgitated what was written in it. That is lazy scholarship. Merely, stating in bullet points what Nkrumah did or did not do from 1957-1966 does not say much, without any rigorous reinterpretation and analysis. I guess Ali Mazrui has done far better than you on this issue. And you need to commence with the course:  "Nkrumah 101" by reading Emmanuel Hansen in the Journal " Transition" in his polemics with Mazrui in the late 1960s.
> I must say that your hagiographical claim is misplaced and your attribution of having contributed to our knowledge on Nkrumah is delusional. Pan- Africanism is not enriched one bit by your unsystematic, unscientific, incoherent, inchoate and largely partisan analysis. You are not obliged to write on a subject-matter you know next to nothing about.
> Karibu!!!
> Abu
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