So in a colonial territory

excerpts from Kwame Nkrumah’s “Consciencism”

photograph by A.B. Godfreed

No need
to continue to explain the world
by reference to the gods
the people, the body, and the soul
of the nation
a colony is any territory
mounting for a hundred years
or more
indulged in history
infected by European ideals:
Plato’s anti-egalitarianism
bow of Heraclitus
Anaximander was not a lotus-eater
however glibly Berkeley said
neo-colonialism is negative action
playing possum
ferret out Janus-faced politicians
call the God complex.

There is always a dialectical
cardinal principle of ethics
place of competing ideologues
index of development
a social contention
solve the mind-body split
foregoing the Cartesian philosophy
unionists merged
Descartes was assailed
by the critical acumen of
Anthony William Amo
an attunement of tensions
thought without practice is empty
completely windowless as every other monad
demands of harmonious development
basic unity of matter…