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By Stephen Asante\u00a0<\/p>\n
Accra, Sept. 21, GNA \u2013 Mr Harrison Owusu, a Movement Coordinator of Africans Rising, a Pan-African movement, has paid tribute to the late Osagyefo Dr Nkrumah, Ghana\u2019s first President, for championing the cause of the continent\u2019s progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said, Dr Nkrumah\u2019s belief in \u201ca united and wealthy Africa independent of foreign aids and donors to realise the people\u2019s development agenda, is still relevant today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cTo us as a Pan-African movement, there cannot be a better time for the continent to begin to embrace the late Dr Nkrumah\u2019s ideologies than now.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHis vision in seeing to a united Africa, where the people could interact and trade freely, utilising the continent\u2019s mass resources for the benefit of the people, should be considered critically, in the wake of the current development challenges facing the people,\u201d the Movement Coordinator told the Ghana News Agency, in an interview in Accra.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ghana on Wednesday, September 21, marked the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, a holiday commemorating the birthday of Ghana\u2019s first prime minister, and first president.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nkrumah was born Kwame Francis Nwia Kofie in the south-west of the Gold Coast in 1909.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His educational career would see him study economics and sociology in America in the late 1930\u2019s, where he nursed the ambition to lead the emancipation of the African continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His charismatic leadership advanced the cause of independence for most countries on the continent, especially sub-Saharan Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Political scientists argue that Nkrumah\u2019s philosophy dictated his political career and his quest for national and continental unity.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr Owusu bemoaned the current plight of the continent \u2013 poverty, travel restrictions across the borders, hunger, language barrier, and over-dependence on the western world for economic activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The time has come for the continent to work hard, engender self-confidence and pull resources together within the Pan-Africanism context for its sustainable development.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He advocated for the use of a common currency across Africa in order to facilitate business and economic activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Additionally, the respective governments ought to ensure that their borders were not that restrictive to enhance the movement of the people in the name of African unity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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