SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: THE BOOK THAT TERRIFIED THE UNITED STATES

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THE BOOK THAT TERRIFIED THE UNITED STATES

Kwame Nkrumah died on this day in 1972. He passed away from prostate cancer while living in exile in Guinea, after being overthrown in a 1966 military coup.

Ghana’s first president had become a major threat to Western interests. Declassified documents show the CIA had foreknowledge of the coup and was supportive of efforts to remove him. For many pan-Africanists, this confirmed what they long argued: Nkrumah’s removal was not simply about internal opposition, but about dismantling a project of genuine African sovereignty that clashed with US strategic interests.

The catalyst was Nkrumah's 1965 book, 'Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism'—a masterwork that systematically exposed how multinational corporations, financial institutions, and foreign aid programmes kept formerly colonised nations economically dependent even after formal independence. According to a memo from Robert W. Komer, special assistant for National Security Affairs, to President Lyndon B. Johnson, "Nkrumah was doing more to undermine our interests than any other black African," while the new military regime that replaced him was "almost pathetically pro-Western".

As Pan-African author and professor Milton Allimadi discusses in a video analysis, this book terrified Washington because it laid bare what Nkrumah called the "extended tentacles of the Wall Street octopus"—the consortium of mining companies, banks, intelligence agencies, and foreign aid bodies that ensured African "independence" remained a fiction. The CIA's overthrow preparations intensified immediately after the book's publication.

Today, Nkrumah's legacy finds new expression in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)—the confederation of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger that is once again striking fear into imperialist hearts. The AES has expelled French troops, abandoned the colonial CFA franc, nationalised mining resources, and declared that any attack on one member is an attack on all.

As Nkrumah once warned: "The strength of the imperialist lies in disunity". The AES represents the opposite, and the empire is taking notice.