Colleagues

Comrades &
Ideological
Authors
-Botsio
-Adamafio
-Batsa
-Ikoku
-Tettegah, Hadjor &
Tetteh 

Julius Sago was the alias for Sam Goomsu Ikoku, an activist-scholar condemned at one time for treason in Nigeria.  Ikoku was a long time activist with the Nigerian Action Group under the leadership of King Awolowo (Ayoade 1985).  Like Adamafio, he was originally opposed to Nkrumah but for different reasons (Thompson, S. W. 1969).    He later split with his organizing colleagues over the question of achieving socialism and developed a strong working relationship with Nkrumahists at the Spark and the Winneba Institute.  After the coup d' etat, Ikoku was deported to Nigeria and began to work with Awolowo again. (Nkrumah 1990)

Ikoku's articles in The Spark under his overt name and pen name (Julius Sago) had to be considered to inspect the ideology of Nkrumahism.  His sheer proliferation as well as the positioning of his articles to either page one or two reflect the important role that he played in leading the discussions on Nkrumahism during the period of The Spark.  Another reason to consider him is that he remained highly esteemed in Nkrumah's correspondence (1990).