This team comprises experts and representatives committed to preserving and promoting African cultural heritage and spiritual practices. Its members include:
Political scientists, governance experts, human rights activists, and representatives from African governments and civil societies. Read more
Military leaders,soilders, defense analysts, security experts, and representatives from African ministries of defense. Read more
Economists, business leaders, policy analysts, and representatives from African ministries of finance. Read more
Medical professionals, public health specialists, traditional healers, and representatives from African ministries of health. Read more
Educators, curriculum developers, Pan-African scholars, and representatives from African ministries of education.
The objects for which the Company is established are:
To advance the education of the public, particularly (but not exclusively) in relation to the life, works, values, principles, and policies of Kwame Nkrumah, including his contributions to African liberation, unity, identity, and the economic and social reconstruction of Africa.
To advance the education of the public in Pan-African studies and history, including the study of African and Diaspora contributions to history, economics, science, literature, culture, and politics.
To advance the education of the public in the promotion of African renaissance, African unity, and the historical and cultural heritage of Africa and its peoples worldwide.
& in line with companies Act 2006 unrestricted.
Amb. Edmund Charles Heymann MV (1925–2019) was one of Kwame Nkrumah’s closest cadres and a key architect of Ghana’s independence movement. He dedicated his life to the liberation, unity, and development of Africa and its peoples.
Charles Heymann was among the young students inspired by Nkrumah’s return to Ghana in December 1947. Before Nkrumah’s arrival, Heymann and his peers were ardent supporters of Dr. J.B. Danquah, organising rallies at the Palladium and Merry Villas. They organised themselves into a club, which Nkrumah transformed into the League of Ghana Patriots, a trans-African liberation movement that would transcend the borders of Ghana.
“When Nkrumah met us, he said, ‘Your organisation cannot be a club, it must be a league; but it must transcend the borders of Ghana, to Nigeria to Kenya, to all over Africa.'”
— Charles Heymann
The League became an integral youth movement of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) from its founding in June 1949.
Heymann played a pivotal role in frustrating colonial designs on Ghana’s constitution. When the Coussey Committee was formed to decide the type of constitution Ghana would have at independence, Heymann and the League of Ghana Patriots acted as a pressure group to expose and resist its compromise by the British colonial administration, which had given the governor veto powers.
Heymann transitioned from youth leadership to the labour movement, serving as the first general secretary of the Government Transport Workers’ Union. This formed the basis for his studies at Ruskin College, London, in labour matters. He later joined the Trades Union Congress of Ghana (TUC) when it was reorganised in 1968.
Under Nkrumah’s auspices, Heymann was placed in charge of the African Affairs Department of the labour movement, coordinating labour movements across Africa. He was a member of the African Affairs National Committee and played a key role in the formation of the All-African People’s Conference in 1958. This brought him into direct conflict with forces opposed to liberation.
His work was pivotal in the formation of the All-African Trade Union Federation, which aimed to give African labour a unified voice independent of Western and Eastern bloc influences. In July 1963, he served as an adviser to the Workers’ Delegate, John Tettegah, at the International Labour Organization, representing the All-African Trade Union Federation Relations Department in his capacity as Director.
Heymann’s dedication to Nkrumah’s vision of a united and liberated Africa never wavered. In his later years, he established The Kwame Nkrumah Historical and Research Foundation (KNHRF) to preserve and promote Nkrumah’s ideals of self-determination, unity, and development for future generations.
Amb. Edmund Charles Heymann passed away in January 2019. His funeral service was held on Saturday, 2nd February 2019, at the Police Training School in Tesano, Ghana, followed by a thanksgiving service at the South La Evangelical Presbyterian Church in La. His legacy lives on through The Kwame Nkrumah Trust, which continues his work of advancing public education in Nkrumah’s legacy and Pan-African ideals.
Heymann, Charles. Interview by Martin-Luther C. King. “Ghana’s Economic Independence Still a Mirage.” Modern Ghana, April 28, 2016. https://www.modernghana.com/sports/689085/ghanas-economic-independence-still-a-mirage.html.
International Labour Organization. “Workers’ Delegate and Advisers.” In Provisional Record No. 47, 47th Session, Geneva, 1963. https://webapps.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/P/09616/09616(1963-47).pdf.
“Amb. Edmund Charles Heymann.” R.I.P Ghana, January 30, 2019. https://ripghana.com/amb-edmund-charles-heymann/.
Heymann, Charles. Interview by Martin-Luther C. King. “Ghana’s Economic Independence Still a Mirage.” Modern Ghana, April 28, 2016. https://www.modernghana.com/sports/689085/ghanas-economic-independence-still-a-mirage.html.
“Amb. Edmund Charles Heymann.” R.I.P Ghana, January 30, 2019. https://ripghana.com/amb-edmund-charles-heymann/.
International Labour Organization. “Workers’ Delegate and Advisers.” In Provisional Record No. 47, 47th Session, Geneva, 1963. https://webapps.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/P/09616/09616(1963-47).pdf.
Charles Heymann MV first established KNT in Ghana, as a historical and research foundation, to promote Kwame Nkrumah’s ideals and works of Self-Determination, Unity and Development.
In London on 8th November 1999 at the House of Commons, Lee Jasper, then Director of the human rights organisation 1990 Trust, sponsored and inaugurated the KNT under the Ghana name Kwame Nkrumah Historical and Research Foundation, which had been established in Accra, Ghana, the Land of Freedom.
The Kwame Nkrumah Trust was first established in Ghana as the Kwame NkrumahHistorical and Research Foundation was formed as far back as 1994. This site is launched as a philosophical site to present the philosophy and ideology of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as a Thinker. As such this is NOT a political site. It is a site of ideas.