DATA SOURCES

Data sources found in the site are primary, secondary and tertiary. Each type fulfilling specific informational needs.

Secondary Sources:

Secondary sources informing this site¹ have been categorized as published works of colleagues, comrades, and ideological partners. These are not hard and fast categories; they merely serve as tools to display the proximity that various authors and chroniclers had to Nkrumah and Nkrumahism. Of the secondary sources, information is ranked in importance from the ideological partner to the comrade to the colleague. In this way, the information source moves from inner to outer circles. The testimonials and writings of ideological partners helped to ascertain the impact of Nkrumahism on other key agents.

Nkrumah and Sekou Toure embrace A note of caution must be made concerning the secondary sources. The world that Nkrumah participated in was full of intrigue and violent opposition. Many close colleagues, comrades, and ideological partners became enemies to Nkrumah. They made contributions during the time of their collusion with him. Two persons that were once closely related to Nkrumah as ideological partners and then later classified as opposition were Tawia Adamafio and Alexander Quaison-Sackey. Even Nkrumah's extra-Ghanaian partners, Sékou Touré, Modibo Keita, and Abd Al-Nasser did not always agree with his positions. This latter group, however, never opposed Nkrumah violently and, in the case of Touré, the camaraderie was genuinely familial.

¹ Limited resources and my inability to read German caused me to omit the text written by Hanna Reitsch titled Ich flog fur Kwame Nkrumah. (1968) Milne speaks of Flight Captain Reitsch's correspondence with Nkrumah. Reitsch has unique pictures and information about the glider training school that existed in Ghana during Nkrumah's presidency and is worth investigation. Nkrumah also mentions the important work that Reitsch had done for the Young Pioneers. [return to text]

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