From a performance
perspective, Kwame Nkrumah represents self-belief; a key asset in any high
performer's toolbox. He was a genius of a thinker and a quintessence of the
application of thought (a rare thing in
our part of the planet). This he appeared to have done consciously;
“Theory is empty without practice and practice is empty without theory”
“Revolutions are
brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of
thought”.
In a recent exercise on Facebook,
I observed keenly as many of our learned Ghanaians listed their top ten books.
None of them mentioned the philosophical conciensism as an important book. On occasions
like today when the discussion of Nkrumahism has been the focus of the media, I
have thrown questions from the book to the so-called Nkrumahist and returned
zilch. It appears nobody wants to discuss the one book that captures the very crux
of Nkrumah's philosophy. For the most part, the discussions revolve around the fragmented
outward manifestations of his thinking. It
beats my imagination how a nation like ours expects to develop without the
slightest understanding of the every thought framework that gave birth to it. This
is comparable to Richard Dawkins studying God’s creation without understanding
God. He will never run out of questions and he has no real idea where he is
headed.
The one thing that caught my attention
as my untrained mind wondered through the maze of a very complex philosophical framework
was structure. It seemed Nkrumah was a fanatic of structure and this was
expressed in his very methods. Once he had laid a pipe, he doesn't depart from
it.
“We face neither
East nor West: we face forward”.
Anyone who has spent some time on this blog already knows
how I feel about structure. In a coming article I shall explore how structure
was birthed at the very beginning of God’s creation. If my proposition is
correct, then Nkrumah’s legacy was built on the Christ performance methodology- the very essence of which is the Structure theory.
In the meantime I shall point you to another blogger who
obviously has done more detail work on the Philosophical Consciensm.
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