Episode 27: “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare” by Kwame Nkrumah

Bindu and Hank explore the “other side” of the Rhodesian Bush War and the other Cold War conflicts with a political treatise from African revolutionary leader Kwame Nkrumah. A perpetual activist, Nkrumah went from a minor Marxist and pan-Africanist thinker to the first president of an independent Ghana. While he never commanded troops in the field, he wrote a field manuel that would inspire Robert Mugabe and a generation of African guerrilla fighters. Join us as we go over the ideas and ideals of Nkrumah and the soldiers of ZANU, ZAPU, SWAPO and ANC that he inspired with his work.

Structure of Nkrumah’s hypothetical All-African Peoples Revolutionary Army (AAPRA)/All-African Committee for Political Co-ordination (AACPC)

Hypothetical strategic plan of operations for AAPRA field engagements.