10 Facts About Nkrumaism

Nkrumaism is an African socialist political ideology based on the thinking and writing of Kwame Nkrumah.

Nkrumaism is a pan-African socialist theory which aims to adapt Marxist–Leninist theory to the social context of the African continent.

The values CPP stands for or the guiding principles of Nkrumaism today are those which have guided it throughout its existence.

Nkrumaism is a syncretic ideology which blends different sources together while not necessarily borrowing their entire frameworks.

The central contention of Nkrumaism was that African countries, united with one another, needed to adopt socialist political structures which were consistent with the traditional African values of egalitarianism.

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Nkrumaism then argued that a return to these values through socialist political structures would both heal the disruption caused by colonial structures and allow further development of African societies.

Nkrumaism argued that Ghana, and most of the rest of Africa, had never developed the class distinctions which Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin saw in Europe and thus reform could reestablish preexisting egalitarianism suited to a post-colonial context.

Ideology of Nkrumaism formed a key part of the personality cult around Nkrumah and the party-building efforts of his political party, the CPP.

Nkrumaism's arguments were widely published and these had an impact within the Gold Coast colony, independent Ghana, and other parts of Africa in the 1950s and 1960s.

Nkrumaism was a verbalization of the requirements of the personal political machine.