There are the Kimmie Weeks of Africa & the Wyclef Jean’s of the Diaspora, who need to join forces with the likes of people like Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah, daughter of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, who has decided to take on the mantle of her father by starting a new intelligent revolution toward real resolution. There needs to be a new era/new decade of Pan-Africanism with a Pan-African summit based on the original teachings & goals of empowerment & health through our collective economic freedom at the forefront.

“Achieving political and economic liberation, social justice and national and continental unity including the African Diaspora are yet to be realized.” Samia Nkrumah

When it comes to socio-economic issues, not only in her homeland Ghana, but across sub-Saharan Africa, Ms Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah, the only daughter of Africa’s first Patriot, is known for her compassionate stance.

Samia has staunchly supported issues that many politicians in Africa shy away from, including anti-corruption, killing of street children, youth unemployment, abuse of women and girl child, slum dwellers, rural folks and the urban poor, income inequality, poverty eradication and equal access to education, health and finance.

What many people don’t know however, is that while she was a student at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, like many migrant children, Yaba was closely following events in her homeland and across continental Africa, especially during the heady days of the late 1980s (Africa’s lost decade) when sub-Saharan Africa was declared bankrupt. This was also the period when many Africans died of hunger and inter-state wars. The 1980s had a profound effect on Samia especially the genocide in Rwanda.

As the daughter of the late President and founder of Ghana, Samia is no stranger to the difficulty and hardship many sub-Saharan African women face daily. After completing her studies in London, Samia relocated to Rome where she got married and had a son, yet she never lost touch with events on the continent.

Samia was all set for a life as a mother and journalist in Rome when she decided to return home in 2007. Recounting what she described as gross inequality and hopelessness among the poor in her homeland, she turned her back on journalism and other lucrative offers from the corporate world and sought public office instead. Out of the four Nkrumah children, the one least expected to follow Nkrumah’s foot steps into politics, emerged as the champion of the poor in sub-Saharan Africa. She has been hailed as the new Mandela of sub-Saharan Africa.

Having ran and won a seat in Ghana’s parliament as the only elected member of her father’s party, Convention Peoples Party, Yaba Christina Nkrumah has turn her attention to fighting poverty, promoting gender/child issues and leading the debate on African unity…. Source:Read More