An Inscrutable Malice: The Silencing of Humanity in The Ruins and The Happening

Africa Is on the Move

“…', Lumumba wrote in his final letter to his wife Pauline. 6 Africa is on the move, he said. His mentor, Nkrumah, watched from Accra, desolate.…”

“…Four years later, the British ambassador to Ghana, A. W. Snelling, wrote, 'On the whole, Africa Is on the Move* it is in the interest of Britain that Nkrumah should cease to rule Ghana.' 7 The United States had already set in motion plans to overthrow Nkrumah. They hated him for his defence of national liberation on the continent and felt aggrieved that his book, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, was such an indictment of imperialism in Africa.…”

“…Smith revealed in 1989 that the book might 'have contributed in a material way to [Nkrumah's] overthrow shortly thereafter'. 9 In 1966, Nkrumah was ejected from power while he was on a trip to the People's Republic of China.…”