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Nkrumahism|nˈkruːməɪz(ə)m|
Also Nkrumaism.
[f. the name of ‘Kwame Nkrumah’ (Francis Nwia Kofi) (1909–72), Ghanaian political leader; see -ism.]
The principles and policies associated with Kwame Nkrumah; adherence to or support of these principles. So Nˈkruma(h)ist a. and n., (supporting, one who supports) the policies and principles of Nkrumah; of or pertaining to these policies and principles. Also Nˌkrumahiˈzation, the making of changes in accordance with his policies and principles.
1960Sunday Times 28 Aug. 5/1 Orgy of phrases... These phrases..have cropped up constantly..‘Nkrumahism’ (off-stage among Ghanaians). 1962Listener 23 Aug. 272/2 Bishop Roseveare had ‘tried to subvert the Nkrumahist revolution’. 1964Economist 1 Feb. 396/2 The forming of regional groups is not inimical to panAfrican unity (as Nkrumahism says it is). 1968Listener 11 July 53/1 In 1964, ‘local conditions’—that is to say, Kwame Nkrumah—demanded that the University appoint certain known ‘Nkrumahists’ to key positions. The sole specific intellectual content of ‘Nkrumahism’ was the implied infallibility of Kwame Nkrumah. Ibid., At the University we had the choice of accepting ‘Nkrumahisation’ or ‘sheltering behind political freedom.’ 1973Ann. Reg. 1972 247 There were those who saw the new military regime in Accra as returning to a form of ‘Nkrumaism without Nkrumah’. Ibid., General Nathan Aferi..was reported as saying..‘There are Busiaites and Nkrumaists and uncommitted.’ |