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The Political Giant the West Forgot

Kwame Nkrumah’s life demonstrates that the end of colonial rule in Africa is central to modern history. August 8, 2025, 2:20 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Government officials carry Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah.

Early in 1960, when James Baldwin visited Tallahassee, Florida, to report on a sit-in for civil rights by young African Americans, he wondered why they had not been cowed and frightened away by the threatening “baseball bats and knives” wielded by white mobs. To be sure, he told himself, there had been courageous resistance to racial subjugation among previous generations of Black people. What made this generation different, Baldwin concluded, was that they “were born at the very moment at which Europe’s domination of A

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