I am still a disciple of Nkrumah - Mugabe

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I am still a disciple of Nkrumah - Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Sunday aroused
the spirit of Ghanaians when he said that he was still
a disciple of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president
of Ghana. Addressing a mini-rally at Old Polo Ground,
now renamed the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum where Nkrumah
delivered his famous independence speech in 1960,
President Mugabe said it was the teachings of the late
Pan-Africanist that fired him up to liberate Zimbabwe
in 1980 from British colonial rule.

Mugabe, who received a rousing welcome on Saturday at
Kotoka International Airport in Accra on his arrival
for the ninth ordinary session of heads of state and
government summit which opened in Accra on Sunday,
recounted his experience when he came to Ghana as a
teacher to be trained as a freedom fighter by his late
mentor.

He said he taught at Apowa Secondary School in
Sekondi-Takoradi where he met and married his late
Ghanaian wife, Mrs Sally Mugabe.

Mugabe aroused the crowd when he said he was
personally taught by the late Nkrumah at the Kwame
Nkrumah Ideological Institute then located in the
central city of Winneba.

"Nkrumah was a great African personality whose
ideology must be preached to Africans irrespective of
one€ ¦’²s political ideology," he said amid cheers.

He said his ZANU PF party cadres were trained in
Ghana.

President Mugabe took time to explain to the crowd the
controversial land reforms in his country, and he
again blamed Tony Blair for lack of political will of
implementing the 1979 Lancaster Accord which required
Britain the fund the compensations for land
acquisition.

He said it was high time Africa united and pulled its
resources together for the betterment of the
continent, saying that could only be achieved if
Africans were united.

"After 44 years when Nkrumah called for a united
government, some African leaders are still calling for
a gradual approach," he intimated saying "the time for
a union government is now."

President Mugabe and Muammar Al Gadhafi of Libya are
the only two African leaders who have received rousing
welcome from Ghanaians among the leaders attending the
AU Summit, probably because of their radicalism
against western powers.

Source:
APA

[Jacuma]

I am still a disciple of Nkrumah -Jacuma