After seeing a film explaining why the West sought to remove Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, from office, Sarkodie expressed concern about Africa’s development in a series of tweets.
In the book “Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism,” written by Kwame Nkrumah and published in 1965, it was stated among other things that “the result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than the development of the less developed parts of the world.
Neocolonialist investment widens rather than narrows the divide between the world’s rich and poor nations.
“Neo-colonialism is founded on the idea of dividing up formerly huge, united colonial territories into a series of weak, unviable States, which are unable to grow independently and are forced to depend on the former imperial power for internal security and defense”
Like during colonial times, their financial and economic institutions are intertwined with those of the previous colonial power.
In his tweets in response to the film, Sarkodie praised Nkrumah for his selflessness and argued that current leaders should follow his example.
Sarkodie tweeted the following:
“Traditional politicians are trained not to create anything but only to achieve their political goals (only to gain power). It’s high time we looked into the backgrounds of those in positions of authority. It is impossible to ignore the importance of resilience, commitment, and discipline in a leader.
“This country has many brilliant people who have each demonstrated in their own unique way how they can create something from nothing with few resources and sustain it for a very long time.
“We can’t sit on all these resources and always sit humbly in front of other foreigners (with not that much resources) asking for help. At this point we should be talking collaborations only and still maintain ownership (100%)”
“When you don’t want to be responsible, you should be fine with outsiders telling you what to do.”
