Author: Kwasi Boqadi

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Published: 2023-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780964935150

Kwasi is an ardent student of Kwame Nkrumahs numerous works, especially Consciencism, which he found challenging, but quite profound. Kwasi Boadi, the author was particularly struck by the doctrine called philosophical consciencism, the ontology of which was described as being materialist but not necessarily atheistic. Kwasi also took an avid interest in the works of Cheikh Anta Diop, works that laid the foundations for what emerged as the Nile Valley School of Afrocentric Thought in the reconstruction of African history. And then there was Kwasi Wiredu, whose reference to Funtum-Denkyem as a usable past left a strong imprint on him. It was these academic strands that collectively shaped the intellectual grounding in articulating the possibility of an alternative political system for Africa, one grounded in the philosophy and ideology implicit in both philosophical consciencism and Funtum-Denkyem. An alternative political system based on the pre-colonial African historical experience might seem like an implausible, if not impossible, vision. But the abject failure of the Western liberal nation-state in Africa leaves us with no other choice. Osagyefo. as the author will be explaining in subsequent letters, was a call essentially an urgent plea to reconsider embracing Funtum-Denkyem, reconcile it with philosophical consciencism, and let the spirit step back on the stage of history one more time to complete the African Revolution. But reconciling philosophical consciencism with Funtum-Denkyem implies decoupling philosophical consciencism from the ideology of scientific socialism under the guidance of a one-party socialist state, which was insisted as conditionality for the African Revolution. Instead, the African Revolution must culminate in the restitution of the African socio-political culture of consensual decision-making as the cultural basis for a politically united Africa. It means asking to rethink commitments to the concepts of socialism and political party altogether to reflect contemporary times. Even though socialism and its one-party statism as we've known it may not be dead - after all, China still goes strong even as Cuba and North Korea limp along - their appeal has waned. And yet the vision of the political unification of Africa remains very much alive as a supreme need.