Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister (1957-1960) and president (1960-1966) of the Republic of Ghana, was the leader of the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain its independence. He subsequently became a leading figure in the campaign for the United States of Africa. Nkrumah was born on September 21, 1909, in Nkroful, Gold Coast. The son of a goldsmith, he attended mission schools at Accra and government training colleges at Achimota (1926-1930) where he prepared to be a teacher.
In 1935, Nkrumah left for the United States where he attended Lincoln University (1935-1939) and the University of Pennsylvania (1939-1943). A gifted student, by 1943 Nkrumah had earned multiple bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics, sociology, education, theology, and philosophy. Then, in May of 1945, Nkrumah departed for London, England, where he studied as a Ph.D. student at the London School of Economics. While in London, Nkrumah held key positions in anti-colonialist and Black-nationalist organizations and authored controversial papers calling for African independence and unity. In 1945, Nkrumah co-founded the Pan African Congress, which became an influential voice against colonialism in Africa.
In 1947, Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast and became general secretary of the newly-founded United Gold Coast Convention. However, in 1949 Nkrumah split with the organization over its political objectives and formed the Convention People’s Party (CPP). During his tenure as head of the CPP, Nkrumah protested British rule and led numerous petitions for self-government. Imprisoned by the British in 1950 for his political activities, Nkrumah was released in 1951 when his party won the general election in a landslide victory. He subsequently was elected prime minister in 1952.
As prime minister, Nkrumah led an aggressive campaign for independence and achieved it in 1957. Three years later, he formed a new government, the Republic of Ghana. A devoted Pan-Africanist, Nkrumah forged alliances with both Guinea and Mali and sought to create a league of African states with its own government. To help achieve this goal, in 1963 he and other African leaders formed the Organization of African Unity. Choosing to remain neutral in political affairs outside of the African continent, Nkrumah initially gained tentative support from both the United States and the Soviet Union, receiving economic and technical aid from both countries.
Vigorously suppressing political dissidents, Nkrumah almost immediately was branded a dictator by his political opponents. Then, in 1961 a firestorm of protest erupted after he appointed himself supreme commander of the armed forces and absolute head of the CPP. Nkrumah subsequently outlawed all other political parties.
In 1966, Nkrumah’s government was overthrown by a coup d’état while he was on a trip to Beijing, China. Taking refuge in Guinea, Nkrumah spent the rest of his life in exile. He died in Bucharest, Romania on April 27, 1972.
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another one of my peers from college has landed an evil neoliberal ghoul job. very prestigious, everyone is so proud on them for exploiting the third world and profiting off of conflict. im soooooooo not bitter/s. just being a loser burnout communist with debt and morals. you know my professors said i had a lot of potential. one offered to recommend me to the cia lmao. i would have been so good at being evil. its fine i just got to get out of this weird limbo part of my life( finally done grieving). i dont need prestige not in the normal way. Like im very cool but not impressive. i just want to wow people, have have them look at me with a tiny bit of aw. I just feel like one day soon im not gonna be cool or impressive anymore, relatives say to me “are you still working at that call center”. this is a silly thing to feel bad about I know.
Its very reasonable, it is a basic human need to get approval from the social community that said human inhabits. We might know better that most people have a horrific and disgusting worldview, but not being valued by the community can still be hurtful.
thanks, i feel less silly. i think i can still get that feeling im looking for, just gotta work harder than everyone else for it, cant just sell my soul for an easy job writing essays/reports for a few hours a week to get that perfect child death to cost ratio, I think quite a few things would give me that feeling. or even if i had a boring job but was head of a union uhg now THATS real prestige. no clue what im gonna do i have commitment issues lol,
It really does suck how many peoples interpretation of success is doing something horrifying or only earned because mommy daddy money.
Also, youre not the only one getting caught up in the rat race, think about all the people who drive Audi, BMWs and shit. Many of them are not actually rich or doing well, theyre in horrible debt. Theyre just good at hiding the issue.
Ive been trying to validate my experiences by contextualizing them, Jake Whitekiddington from Grad school couldn’t have ever handled being me and walking in my shoes and the only reason hes doing so well because he was set up so well by his rich parents.
A lot of jobs in my opinion arent even worth doing unless there is some positive outcome for somebody else. Corporate Lawyer bad, evil Doctor in Low income area good.
You could also just play up what you do, not like anyone knows what the fuck you really do and its not like most jobs are fake bullshit anyway. I think youre right for acknowledging that wanting prestige is also kind of silly
Ive been trying to validate my experiences by contextualizing them
I think that would help me. back in school the kids I was running laps around were not working and taking unpaid internships while I was skipping meals to take care of my teen sister in law (and now im helping my brother). even among my non white friends i always had the least resources. plus i was grieving, this stupid capitalist hellhole expects you to just bounce back, and thats not fair. ive been though a lot compared to them. youre right Jake Whitekiddington would break if he were me. thanks.
Only you can be you, there is no real need for comparison as no one else can be you but you. Nor can u be Jake Whitekiddington although itd sure be nice, he can never say any of his accomplishments are truly his. But look at everything you’ve done, youre amazing!
awwww why thank you, you made my day!
If I was an engineering type and I had the chance I would have taken the job at Raytheon. Spend a decade milking the clock and working in aerospace on things that will never work. Then just retire to Cuba with the money I saved up.
haha that does sound nice, just dont be good at your job lol. retiring in cuba is hard though if youre not cuban.
I bet you that if you said you had a bunch of money and you want to retire there to help the revolution they would help you with some paperwork. I will never have the money to try but also having a background in stuff means you would be defecting so that is fun as well.
haha the defecting option may work. im just gonna marry a cuban citizen and then give a family member like 60,000 for a house in full and have it be in their names so we can keep our dual citizenship (for the american passports, i will be giving up my other citzenship). my partner promised me we will die in cuba lol I cant imagine a better place to be old. also unlike me my partner is actually “successful”.
comrades! i now officially have a job!
on the other hand, now i have a job
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yeah, this is exactly what i was trying to articulate! like, don’t get me wrong, i’m happy to not be immediately precarious anymore, but goddamn it feels like the start date is a hard end point on my freedom
Whenever I talk to students studying hard to get a job, I tell think to think about all the stress and tears they will shed to graduate. Then to think about how half the people in that job right now hate it and develop problematic coping mechanisms to get by.
revolvers are the katanas of guns
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oh my GOD the america faction in unjust depths named one of their prison labor warships the john brown. this author gets america in a way few can
(for context unjust depths is a post post apocalyptic novel about heroic communists fighting imperialism in a world that’s a successor to our own after a disaster forced all of humanity to live in underwater cities. it’s really good at showing just how evil capitalism and fascism both are, while being consistent about how much happier people become under communism. one of the factions was started by
and names their warships after famous americans)
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I’m on my second readthrough right now. it’s a banger.
i just finished episode 10, which i guess you might have been able to tell if your memory of things is good enough. it’s really fucking good! every time i read something from a new characters pov they become my favorite, so i would die for homa
i never realized just how nice it would be to have a story that includes both sick mech fights and knowledge of the immortal science
just saw someone buy a tripleshot espresso Starbucks cold coffee can, immediately down it in one swig in front of the cashier, and then proceeded to free-throw it into the trash can. He missed, skulked over to the trash can to pick it up, and came back to try again. I’m fully convinced that there is something deeply up with college-aged white boys, but dudes rock, I guess?
When I was in high school my friend would always try to do something difficult or impressive, even something as basic of trying to throw something in the trash from far way. He’d often miss or fail at it, so for a bit I was a little judgemental on why he kept trying if he was just going to miss. But sometimes he would succeed, and one of those times I realized, you’ll never do cool shit unless you try to do cool shit, and that’s stuck with me ever since.
Of course don’t act a fool and make it everyone else’s problem, or someone else mess to clean up. No harm no foul and so on.
The trick with paper is to crush it so it’s relatively spherical, then give it backspin while throwing overhand with decent arc.
I mean, go off, as long as he actually made sure the can got thrown away, nothing wrong with it. I have to imagine Hank Hill is with me everywhere I go to have a functional life, I can’t judge. But yeah, the constant need for college aged white boys to “win” at something (like a trash can throw) is weird.
Boys smgdh, why do they have to do such stupid shit that makes me think they’re cute
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did anyone ever find out what was up with that weird temple on epstein island
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a video call with the TrueAnon hosts? where did this come from?
I was just playing Minecraft with them over Zoom and Brace was dressed like the temple on Little Saint James, very strange behavior.
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Nah it was revealed to me in a dream.
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Ok fr I just found it on the Trueanon subreddit I don’t know where it came from.
No but I’m glad you’ve been re-watching that cumtown bit.
Wasn’t it a copy of a bathouse he really liked in turkey? So it just would have been a themed room for when you wanted to do some sex crimes stylishly
having to wake up and go to work takes the fun out of simple pleasures like being cold
Damn Matt Cushman is in the hospital. I hope he gets better, he’s the best one.
Fucking climate change. I just wanna wear my new thrift-store perfect-condition leather jacket in autumn, is that too much to ask?
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Barely related, restaurants used to give out free bread. I haven’t had free bread in a restaurant possibly since 2008. Also some places charge like 3 euros for a jug of tap water which is ridiculous
As an American hearing that restaurants in the eu are not just serving still water, but charging money for it, is incredibly ominous. I’ve always been told that asking for tap water would get you confused looks in a lot of europe.
First Watch uses mixer attachments as lighting decor and I hate it.
in the last seven and a half years we’ve been doing this show [CTH]