Thread by @vjgtweets

From Kwame Nkrumah's Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonisation, on the role of history:

"In the new African renaissance, we place great emphasis on the presentation of history. Our history needs to be written as the history of our society..."

"That is to say, the European contact needs to be assessed and judged from the point of view of the principles animating African society, and from the point of view of the harmony and progress of this society"

On the need for a "dynamic unity" to foster social cohesion among the three broad streams of African society, the traditional segment, the Islamic tradition, and the Christian tradition

"With true independence regained...a new harmony needs to be forged,a harmony that will allow the combined presence of traditional Africa,Islamic Africa and Euro-Christian Africa, so that this presence is in tune with the original humanistic principles underlying African society"

"Social revolution must therefore have... an intellectual revolution, a revolution in which our thinking and philosophy are directed towards a redemption of our society. Our philosophy must find its weapons in the environment and living conditions of the African people"

"What is to be done then? I have stressed that the two other segments [Xtianity and Islam], in order to be rightly seen,must be accommodated only as experience of the traditional African society.If we fail to do this our society will be racked by the most malignant schizophrenia"

Nkrumah cites three necessary elements for an ideology capable of resisting neo-colonialism:

1) Operating through a mass party
2) Continuous with the past
3) Socialist