Samia Nkrumah, the daughter of Ghana’s founding president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has criticized the insufficient recognition of her father’s legacy.
She urged for his principles to be integrated into Ghana’s educational curriculum.
“The day when his books become part of the curriculum, the day when his books are read and people are familiar with his ideas, agree or disagree with him, then Ghana indeed would have done him justice,” she stated.
She stressed the importance of educating Ghanaians about her father’s work through critical engagement and deeper analysis.
“We can debate it. We can argue about it. We can take things from it, reject others, but we have to become familiar with it,” she expressed.
She also took personal responsibility for preserving her father’s legacy, asserting that it is up to those who admired or supported him to ensure his ideas remain relevant.
“I think it is the responsibility of those of us who are his followers or who claim to be his followers.
“It is our responsibility. And that’s why over the last few years, I sat down, I thought, no, I have to write something. I have to write, tell our father’s story from a daughter’s perspective,” she emphasized.
In response to Bola Ray’s suggestion of a Kwame Nkrumah movie on a platform like Netflix, Samia Nkrumah stated, “Absolutely. Yes, indeed. And we’ve started. And we will do it because that’s one way of bringing his whole story to life. And, you know, Nkrumah’s story is an African story.
“It’s a Ghanaian story. It’s a story of Ghana, of Africa, of Black people all over the world,” she declared.
“I’m very happy that our son, my son Kwame, and a group of young people, and that’s what is wonderful, is that the younger generation, not even my generation, the one after me, is working on a TV series”.