{"id":5537,"date":"2012-04-27T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2014-07-22T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T08:20:00","slug":"ghana-face-east-west-face-nkrumahs-ideology-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/ghana-face-east-west-face-nkrumahs-ideology-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana \u201cWe face neither East nor West; We face forward\u201d| Nkrumah’s Ideology is needed…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/iframe><\/p>\nToday April 27th, 2012 marks the 40th year since the death of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the father of <a title=\"Nelson Mandela on My Mind Today!!!\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/2011\/nelson-mandela-mind-today\/\">African Nationalism<\/a>. Nkrumah preached a lot about African unity as Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King and all the great legends you can think of. Need I say more, today, Ghanaians around the world need to reflect on who we are as children of a great Nation, our History, our Independence, our <a title=\"Why Some African-Americans don\u2019t go to Africa\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/2011\/african-american-hip-hop-artist-dont-africa\/\">Culture<\/a> and Greatness We have achieved on the map. From the fastest growing economy in the world to the most stabilized country in Africa. The current fear and tension that has risen around the upcoming election in Ghana, needs proper and appropriate attention from leaders, media groups and all citizens to bring about a peaceful and yet again another successful elections.We ought to remember tribalism only brings division, and division brings interest to our natural resources, that will run our wealth dry and poor. \u201cWe face neither East nor West; We face forward\u201d so together regardless of tribe , culture or religion, let us protect our Motherland. Other African Nations and the diaspora look to us as leaders, as a symbol of a democracy. “What will be Nkrumah speech today, if he stood on the old podium of March 6th 1957?<\/p>\nWhile you think, I will leave you with this….<\/p>\nThe clock ticking \nI’m still thinking \nIs it too late to raise Nkrumah from his coffin \nIdeology still missing \nTribalism war they’re calling \nPolitical violence blood shedding \nI’ll rather bite the bullet that assassinated Kennedy \nThan to divide the beauty of my mixed-ethnic family<\/p>\nMy eyes starts twitching \nChild soldiers rising \nBullets starts ringing \nSee the whole country running \nStampede, bodies falling \nAnother innocent man dying \nVultures feed on corpse while the kid sit starving \nCan you see the clear picture that I’m painting<\/p>\nThe clock ticking \nMothers start crying \nPreachers start preaching \nImams start praying \nActivist start marching \nMusicians start singing \nTeachers start teaching \nLeaders start leading<\/p>\nA moment of silence<\/p>\nRespect is earned through true governing \nRemember God first and our neighbours we will be loving \nUnited we stand divided we will be falling \nGhana we’ve sailed too long to see the Blackstar line sinking \nI\u2019ll be a fool to bury my head in the sand without speaking \nWar on another brother is dishonour to the red flag meaning \nSelling our souls for gold colonialism we will just be bringing \nYen ara Asa si ni is the green flag meaning<\/p>\nToday the clock is still ticking \nbut with calm winds whistling \nA voice I hear saying \n\u201cAt long last, the battle has ended! \nAnd thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!\u201d \nRemember, we are the Blackstar united.<\/p>\nBy Archyn Orijin \n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JcgZHAp4GyY\" width=\"635\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0iNwYbPD2I\" width=\"635\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Famous Nkrumah Quotes:<\/h3>\n\u201cWe face neither East nor West; We face forward\u201d \n\u2015 Kwame Nkrumah<\/p>\n“A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.<\/em>” \n– Kwame Nkrumah<\/p>\n\u201cThe forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.\u201d \n\u2015 Kwame Nkrumah<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_EGghvHfI6U\" width=\"635\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today April 27th, 2012 marks the 40th year since the death of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the father of African Nationalism. Nkrumah preached <a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/ghana-face-east-west-face-nkrumahs-ideology-needed\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2172],"tags":[4625,4629,4624,4631,4632,4627,4628,4626,4630,514,513],"class_list":["post-5537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-underground-news","tag-2012-2","tag-african-unity","tag-april-27th","tag-archyn-orijin","tag-brew-butler","tag-dr-kwame-nkrumah","tag-father-of-african-nationalism","tag-ghanas-first-president","tag-legends","tag-marcus-garvey","tag-martin-luther-king"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nkrumah1.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}