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…