The Cuban Ambassador to Ghana, Pedro Luis Despaigne González, attended the tribute in honor of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, organized by a group of Ghanaian political parties and social and political organizations at the National Theater in Accra. The Dr. Nkrumah is considered by the history of Ghana as the father of the independence.
As is tradition in Ghana, politics and art were merged. Simultaneously with the poems and allegorical songs to the role of Dr. Nkrumah in the struggle for independence and for the development of Ghana, a Panel was held, chaired by Dr. Raymond Atuguba, and composed of three prestigious intellectuals: Professor Susan Adu Amamkwa, representing the People's Convention Party (CPP); Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana; Mr. Kwesi Pratt, leader of the Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG), who addressed different facets of the thinking and action of Dr. Nkrumah.
Mr. Kwesi Pratt, in an emotional intervention denounced the "attempts to change the history of Ghana" and in a simile with the national sport of Ghana, said that in the process for the independence among the different "players", the definitive "goal" the proclamation of independence on March 6, 1957, was accomplished by the Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
The Dr. Kwame Nkrumah admired the Cuban Revolution and its leaders. The most visible expressions were: the interview with Commander in Chief Fidel Castro at the Theresa hotel in New York in 1959, which initiated the bilateral relations between Cuba and Ghana; the welcome in Ghana to the Commander Ernesto Ché Guevara in January 1965.
In the tribute for the 108th birthday of the Dr. Nkrumah were attended by leaders of a group of political forces that declare themselves heirs of nkrumahism ideology as: the People's Convention Party (CPP); the National Democratic Congress (NDC); the National People's Convention (PNC); the All People's Congress (APC), as well as the organizations of the Ghanaian Civil Society. Also present was a representation of the Diplomatic Corps.