THE SOCIOPOLITICAL IMPERATIVES OF KWAME NKRUMAH’S PHILOSOPHICAL CONSCIENCISM: AN ECLECTIC PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

The concept of modernity is characterized by force and voluntary recognition of the multi-culturality of human-existence, and Nkrumah extols the virtue of this intercultural dialogue of many collaborative efforts that characterize the principles of modernity in Africa, to formulate his philosophical consciencism. He models a new African consciousness in the characteristics of the expectations of modernity in Africa. Nkrumah as one of the foremost post colonial leaders in Africa, explores the ideal of the political blueprint of African government in the marriage of triads of cultures within the panoply of indigenous African tradition, Euro-Judeo-Christian tradition and Islamic tradition in Africa as a model or paradigm of cultures that suites the governance of the post colonial African states. It is a kind of hybridization of cultural identities that will bring the workability of government in Africa. The findings of the study therefore, corroborate the thesis that the political independence of the post colonial African states without eclectic triads or dual of cultural identities will result in conflict of interest. Consciencism therefore, is a philosophy and ideology for decolonization with particular reference to the African revolution in spite of its numerous set-backs with the North Atlantic Slave Trade, colonialism, and neo-colonialism in Africa. More so, on the nature philosophical consciencism, Nkrumah advocates the synergies between the concept of materialism and idealism. He bridges the hiatus of differences between them as separate school of thought within the trajectory of positive complimentarity. In human society, the individual has the character of both idealistic and materialistic tendencies in which they relates to the concept of the phenomenal world of reality. So, it is in this case, that the streaks characters of idealism and materialism do not exist in equipoise, they correlates in conflict of difference in which one streak predominates the other.