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 based upon the principle of breaking up former large united colonial territories into a number of small non-viable States which are incapable of independent development and must rely upon the former imperial power for defense and even internal security. Their economic and financial systems are linked, as in colonial days, with those of the former colonial ruler.”
In his tweets in response to the film, Sarkodie discreetly praised Nkrumah for his selflessness and argued that current leaders should follow his example.
