Kwame Nkrumah: The Story of Post-Colonial Africa

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No excuses or white-washing European imperialism and at the same time no romanticising or excuse making for African leaders and governments. The impartial aspect of this channel makes it incredible. This is the kind of content I'd show my students if I was a history teacher or professor.

As a Ghanaian, I can confirm that this video is very well researched and largely accurate. I applaud the team behind this channel

As a Ghanaian, I'd like to say that this documentary was very well done. This has taught me a lot more about our hero in much more details than we studied in school. Despite his flaws, we in Ghana still hold him in high esteem because he was a man of vision and also achieved a lot in terms of infrastructure development in his short time. We believe that Nkrumah genuinely meant well for not just Ghanaians, but for black Africa as a whole. But the pressure of the expectations of a newborn Nation, the manipulations of foreign powers, and the obsession with his own crazy ambitions led him down the wrong path. He made mistakes, and those mistakes forced him to make even direr mistakes. In the end, Nkrumah was a one-man army fighting for a vision and a future that only he could see. He tried to force everyone to get on board and it ended in disaster. Unfortunately, NKRUMAH WAS WAY AHEAD OF HIS TIME.

Bro I’ve become enamored by history but Didn’t know much about African history until I started watching your channel very insightful keep up the good work

I come from Ghana and we were never taught the history of our independence in such detail. I’m shocked to hear all this about Nkrumah. He was presented as a man who did no wrong and was simply killed by “haters”.

As a Ghanian, I'm very disappointed in all the Ghanaians saying that this video is the true history of kwame Nkrumah. The creator got a lot of things wrong. e.g 1. Kwame Nkrumah did not grab the the opportunity in 1947 because he was struggling, by 1947 Nkrumah was not struggling financially infact he built a school in 1947 called Ghana National school with his own personal money. 2. The name Ghana was founded by kwame Nkrumah not J.B Danquah. .Dr Kwame Nkrumah, on Tuesday, July 20, 1948 inaugurated his first school, called, Ghana National College build with his personal money, long before the gold coast gain it independence. NOTE in 1948 Ghana was still called Gold Coast So clearly Nkrumah founded Ghana in 1948 He set up the {Kwame Nkrumah University} of Science and Technology in 1952 So now the Question is where was J. B. Danquah when Nkrumah was naming his school, Ghana National College.? 3. The ivory coast and the other French speaking country story clearly tells me that you have no idea about kwame Nkrumah.

I always love how thoughtful and meticulous this channel is when it comes to providing information about African history. I have watched all your videos about African leaders and I must say your neutral approach in shedding light on these figures is so important. It is easy for us, who are more and more removed from the periods immediately before and after independence, to forget about the nuances of these political heros and only think about the good they brought rather than remember that they too were human. I have been unlearning a lot of things I knew about Nkrumah and rather now being both appreciative of his fight for independence but also seeing how some of his pitfalls made my home country what it was especially in the 70s and 80s

Kwame Nkrumah was a great, true and well caring leader and Not a dictator. Nkrumah was an honest man except the ministers around him were the problem like any other government in the Western world. Nkrumah was great and wonderful wise man in Ghana and Africa.

I am starting to see a pattern between former and new African leaders. Kagame has a similar story, so does Museveni, Gaddafi, ect.. They all start out as revolutionists, and freedom fighters. The longer they stay in power, the corruption starts to ensue slowly.. Nevertheless, Kwame is one of the greatest Pan-Africanist to have lived in my book.

I really appreciate the fact that your videos are not just among the most factually correct and informative videos about African history but that they're also narrated by a voice i could listen to for hours. Thank you🙏🏾

I am always drawn back to the question "How would decolonization have turned out differently had it not happened in the shadow of the Cold War?" I would never ascribe all the issues of African Independence to proxy interventionism or internal political strife, but adding the additional layer of conflict to the already difficult situation of having no established institutions of self governance and a population that overwhelmingly was for the immediate rejection of colonial power structures was a recipe for disaster. A disaster the echoes of which are only now being outlived, and only in isolated cases that through good fortune or extraordinary leadership have managed to navigate the obstacles of the past three generations.

Nkrumah never fell, rather he lives on through his ideologies of black empowerment and panAfricanism.

Greetings to Ghana from the US! 🇬🇭🇺🇲 Let us hope that within our lifetimes better angels prevail in both our countries - then the true wealth of your peoples will no doubt transform our world.

Thank you very much for this research work it was very well researched. As a Sierra Leonean and African, from this video have come to realized that we Africans are somehow responsible for our own development and under development simply because of our own political greed and thirst for power . Thanks

As an Indian this channel has been such an education. Thank you!

I'm super excited for this! Please also do Thomas Sankara next. Was doing some reading on him yesterday as it was 33 years ago he was assassinated and cannot believe Blaise Compaoré went on to rule Burkina Faso for 27 bloody years!

I'm English and I love Ghana. This is a very informative video on it's history, an exemplary nation for the other emerging nations. Hope to visit one day 🇬🇭

Am a Ghanaian who's currently based in Spain. But trust me I was never been told about our country's first president Dr. KWAME NKRUMAH. I always say no Man is perfect. No doubt NKRUMAH had his flaws. But those behind the collapse of his government are to be blamed for all the set backs we have experienced. Even till date, all the projects he made during his tenure as leader of GHANA still exists and running. If this Man was allowed to continue till the end of his life. Trust me GHANA AND AFRICA will be much more advanced than we today as a people. Thank you for this detailed history.

I have pressed the like button already because I know it's going to be a good one :)