Manasseh Azure Awuni an award-winning investigative journalist has detailed Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah’s image is like ‘akpeteshie’.
According to Manasseh Azure Awuni, in Ghana Nkrumah’s image is like akpeteshie which does not need any advertisement to promote its patronage.
He asserted that it is not for anything that people say “Nkrumah never dies.”
Manasseh Azure Awuni noted that Nkrumah’s statue also fell, its head decapitated in the manner he was severed from the nation he toiled to build, like that of Akufo-Addo, some Ghanaians rejoiced over it.
He wrote on X, “ Some Ghanaians rejoiced over the fall of Nkrumah. As captured by the Daily Graphic, Nii Okai Pesemaku III of the Gbese Traditional Area sent a congratulatory message to the coup makers in which he described the fall of Nkrumah as “more spectacular than the fall of Satan.”
“Nearly six decades later, posterity–the acclaimed judge of human endeavours–continues to pass favourable verdicts on Nkrumah’s life and deeds”, he added.
His statement on X added, “ Voted Africa’s Man of the Millennium ahead of Mandela and having his statue at the Headquarters of the African Union are among other international recognitions of Nkrumah, a man with many streets and monuments named after him in countries across the world”.
“Back home, Nkrumah’s image is like akpeteshie. It doesn’t need any advertisement to promote its patronage. And it’s not for nothing that “Nkrumah never dies”, he stated.
Manasseh Azure Awuni further revealed that Kwame Nkrumah and Akufo-Addo may have suffered the same faith but those fates alone do not define their places in Ghana’s history.
See his full post below:
In February 1966, OUR Kwame Nkrumah was toppled in a military coup. In an operation to wipe out his memory, the military regime targeted even the first borborbor band, seized its drums and arrested the founder of that music, Francis Nuatro of Kpando. Nkrumah had adopted the… pic.twitter.com/5hURoXy2Lw
— Manasseh Azure Awuni (@Manasseh_Azure) January 15, 2025
