The Ellen Gurney African Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University in the US, Prof. Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong has described Ghana's first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to be an individual who had an obsessive fear for women, yet had individuals he particularly entrusted in emerged as females.

According to the globally esteemed historian, Kwame Nkrumah's discomfort around women may have originated from his early ambition of becoming a Catholic Priest, a vocation that requires celibacy.

Prof. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong established all this at the 13th Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lectures and Special Congregation of the University of Cape Coast. A two-day thought-provoking and inspiring event.

Lecturing on the theme: 'Diaspora, Pan-Africanism, and Spiritual Awakening: Nkrumah's Years Abroad and as Head of State', Prof. Akyeampong noted that Kwame Nkrumah as a politician, guarded his private life and family.

He stressed that though Nkrumah gave up on priesthood, an ascetic lifestyle and spiritual discipline remained attractive to him.

The Ellen Gurney Professor further remarked Kwame Nkrumah to be a very private man, who though often surrounded himself by people, the few individuals he really confided in were most particularly foreign women.

Namely: Erica Powell, his British private secretary, Shirley Graham DuBois, the wife of W.E.B DuBois, and June Mill, his research assistant of many years.

The Historian seemed to have be particularly interested in Nkrumah's discomfort about organized religion, money and women. Positions that evolved during his years abroad.

The intriguing lecture by Prof. Akyeampong later depicted that books authored by the distinctive late Ghanaian President, following his overthrow in 1966 by the National Liberation Council in a coup d'état, got burnt at the University of Ghana. 

An event executed under the supervision of the American Ambassador to China, who appears an African American.

Chancellor of UCC, Dr. (Sir) Sam Jonah following the untold revelation of Kwame Nkrumah by the African Historian, bemoaned to be a tragedy that these important lessons of Kwame Nkrumah aren't part of the everyday pamphlet of the African student, as recall the burning of Nkrumah's written books as shocking, but ascertained that it's never too late for Ghana to rewrite the wrong.

Chancellor of UCC, Dr. (Sir) Sam Jonah following the untold revelation of Kwame Nkrumah by the African Historian, bemoaned to be a tragedy that these important lessons of Kwame Nkrumah aren't part of the everyday pamphlet of the African student, as he recall the burning of Nkrumah's authored books as shocking, but ascertained that it's never too late for Ghana to rewrite the wrong.

The astute African American Historian following his two-day lecture at the UCC's 13th Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lecture, was subsequently conferred a Honorary Degree to become the institution's 52nd individual to have been honoured as such, as he pounced on the occasion to unveil his newly authored book titled: "Independent Africa: The First Generation Of Nation Builders."

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan