and philosophy. "Seek ye first the political kingdom; and allother things shall be added unto it."At the heart of Nkrumah'splan was a giant dam that would produce vast quantities of cheap electricity enough power to build a modernindustrial state in the heart of Africa within a generation. But what Nkrumah did notforsee was that with the dam would come other more dangerous forms of powerwhich he could not control; political and economic forces that would tear aparthis vision of using science and technology to create a model for the newAfrica.[Kwame Kwateng] Nkrumah was, [to] my mind, a visionary, not adreamer. In his mind's eye, he could see... a United States of Africa, as [in] United States of America and he could see Africa coming together to form a viable unit; to become a world power, in theshortest possible time.[Al Haji Futa] He needed power; and there was no source from whichhe could get the amount of power which he needed. And this was the one source which couldprovide him with that power; and he was prepared to go the whole length to get it.BLACK POWER[From ?newsreel dated] 1951 [Voiceover:] "To the people of the Gold Coast, therecame, last week, a day that will always be remembered intheir history. For here, in what's been a British colony for more than acentury, nearly amillion people went to the polls in their first general election. "The main issue in the election lay betweenthose who want self-government sometime in the future andthose who want it now, like the Convention People's Party the CPP. Theirleader, KwameNkrumah, spent election day in jail, serving a sentence for incitement andsedition."Nkrumah's rise had beenirresistible. After spending ten years in America as a student, he had returnedto the Gold Coast in 1947. Within two years, he had formed a political party.Two years after that, he swept to power. Although the British still controlledtrade, defence and foreign policy, he had become the first black African primeminister.Al Haji Futa Nkrumah, before coming into power, had, in hiselection manifesto, made certain promises about development; about turning the country into amodern industrial country. Nkrumah very much believed that for development, power wasnecessary; that you had to have power that without power, you couldn't develop."Power" meantelectricity; and the source was to be the giant Volta river that flowed throughthe eastern half of the country. Ever since the 1920s, the British had plannedto build a dam there. A hydroelectric plant would produce electricity to makealuminium from the Gold Coast's vast reserves of the mineral bauxite.In the early fifties,Britain was desperate for a cheap source of aluminium. Nkrumah joined with theBritish to resuscitate the scheme.[Clip from] "The Volta RiverProject" [by the] Gold Coast Film Unit [dated] 1954The British authorities sawthe power from the dam simply as a means to boost the Empire's supply ofaluminium. But for Nkrumah, it was much more. He saw it as the key tofulfilling his country's destiny.Kojo Botsio, Minister of Education 195157 The power was originally conceived just for themanufacture of aluminium in this country. But then, when Kwame came, he gave a new accent,