WHY GHANA FEARS PAN-AFRICANISTS

What happens when you try to hold a pan-African convention on Kwame Nkrumah square in Ghana’s capital on Constitution Day? Simple answer, it gets cancelled by the government two hours before it’s due to start, over claims there’s been a double booking.

Most of us reckon that excuse is BS, including pan-African scholar, PLO Lumumba, who was due to speak at the event in Accra earlier this month. He gave us the lowdown on why Ghanaian authorities feared the gathering of some of Africa’s brightest minds and felt they had to stop it.