Autumn 2007
The politics of pragmatism
Having a smart president in Thabo Mbeki is all very well, but when does philosophical indulgence come at the expense of meaningful transformation? Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, once an icon of Pan-Africanism and anti-colonialism, ended up as a corrupt tyrant and was overthrown in a military coup in 1966.
04 March 2009
Having a smart president in Thabo Mbeki is all very well, but when does philosophical indulgence come at the expense of meaningful transformation?
Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, once an icon of Pan-Africanism and anti-colonialism, ended up as a corrupt tyrant and was overthrown in a military coup in 1966.
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