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The Sages | JoyNews speaks with Prof. Kwesi Kwaa Prah, Author, Pan Africanist and Sociologist

Professor Kwesi Kwaa Prah - The Sage Philosopher, sociologist, renowned scholar, Pan Africanist and revolutionary intellectual. These are often found in descriptions of Professor Kwesi Kwaa Prah. He confirms all these in this wide ranging and highly original, provocative, even dangerous conversation. For with equal ability, this highly cerebral man is incontrovertibly a scholar, as well as a hardened revolutionary. This time, "revolutionary" drops the usual coupling - in his case - of "intellectual." So that we are not only describing a revolutionary intellectual, we engage a revolutionary, period. In previous lives and roles, Kwesi Kwaa Prah managed the supply lines of ammunition to the liberation movements in many parts of Southern Africa. He was the West African whose home became an armoury for the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in South Africa. As he hopped from frontline state to frontline state, he was part professor, part certified gun runner for liberation and decolonisation of Southern Africa. That story alone is fascinating enough. But there is much more. In Sudan, living as a Professor in the University of Juba, where he had moved from the UK's University of Cambridge, Kwesi Parah was also a commander of intelligence, with strong links to the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA). From his retelling of things he was up to even in primary school at the Government Boys School in Accra, and in secondary schools at Achimota School and Mfantsipim School, it is not too surprising that he became the man we now know. It is not then entirely unexpected that he got suspended from school sometimes, and yet grew up to become unifier in the anti-colonial student movement. He is a man of contrasting characteristics united in one being by an unshakeable determination to seek freedom and justice. He had to leave Ghana, when the regime in power found him too troublesome. His residences have shifted from Ghana to eight other African countries, parts of Asia, many European countries and more. A widely journeyed scholar and revolutionary, he has a restless intelligence that is always searching for answers to make society, especially African society better. This conversation raises many of them. It also reveals Professor Prah, in an age of sometimes suffocating political correctness, as a man who is not held back by any fears, when it comes to expressing his convictions. You may disagree with him, you may agree with him, but few can ignore him, for he is provocative. He will not be detained too much by conversations about Ghana today, like all the others on the continent, this country is, by his criteria in a mess. It is more important to him that the structural factors of neo-colonialism and the absence of unity among the African people and cultures be interrogated for answers. What is Africa, and who should define it, does it stand apart from the Arab world? How does the Sudan fit into the resolution of this conundrum? Is race a reality, or just a convenient but synthetic construct based on economic foundations, and deployed mainly by the dominant classes to exclude all others? How can "Blackism" be the basis of solidarity, when it is all too common to see members of the black race deployed for military purposes against Africans, by imperialism? Is the black military servant of imperialism, who is willing to kill you, also your brother? Why has Africa abandoned its own languages in its quest for a better tomorrow? Which country has ever done this and succeeded? Will Africa ever progress if it does not meaningfully unite? What is meaningful unity? He mocks his colleagues in academia in Africa for tagging a department of an African university as the "Department of Modern Languages?" Kwesi Prah seems to move from provocation to provocation, all in an effort to get people to think. This is not a conversation for the intellectually lazy, or the squeamish fence-sitter. Professor Prah is a strong admirer of Nkrumah and Nyerere. A creature of the left, who would take no dictation from anyone, not even from the Soviet Union, when it sponsored an event to commemorate the life of Amilcar Cabral, soon after that great man was assassinated. Professor Prah is fiercely independent in his outlook to all things. We are immensely grateful that he agreed to be a Sage, listen, and as always pass it on to others. Best wishes. #TheSages #MyJoyOnline #JoyNews https://www.myjoyonline.com/ghana-news/ Subscribe for more videos just like this:    / @myjoyonline   Follow us on: Facebook:   / joy997fm   Twitter:   / joy997fm   Instagram: https://bit.ly/3J2l57 Click on this for more news: https://www.myjoyonline.com/