RHODESIA FILE
KWAME NKRUMAH
“EITHER we concentrate our forces for a decisive armed struggle to achieve our objective, or we will each fall one by one to the blows of imperialism in its present state of open and desperate offensive. Our war is not a war of conquest, it is a war of revolutionary liberation. We fight not only in self defence but to free unite and reconstruct.
Kwame Nkrumah
This book contains key documents from the file of Rhodesia which Kwame Nkrumah opened shortly after the unilateral declaration of independence by the settler government on 11th November 1965. They relate mainly to the crucial years 1964-1966. The letters and papers, many of which were published for the first time in this book, showed the thinking of Nkrumah on the whole question of minority regimes in Africa within context of the total liberation of south Africa.
Originally, it was Nkrumah intention to write a full history of Rhodesia which would be a “case settler of politics”. But work on the book was interrupted as a result of the coup in Ghana on 24th February 1966. He opened a new file on Rhodesia in Conakry where he lived as Co-President of Guinea from 1966-1971. However, the writing of other books which he considered more urgent, and then his illness, prevented him from writing the book. The documents here published in Rhodesia papers, would have formed the backbone of his projected book.
A connecting narrative and chronology of main events in the history of Rhodesia from 1887 have been added by the publishers to provide background material and continuity.
While this edition retains all the material of the first edition, an appendix has been added to bring in full focus Nkrumah’s visionary outlook on events in newly independent countries. The Appendix is an extract of ones of Nkrumah’s writings on neocolonialism and the danger that phenomenon poses to the sovereignty and integrity of the new nations of the world.
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