Kwame Nkrumah - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This politician cited the writings of Anton Wilhelm Amo, who was from the same ethnic group, to argue that idealism is “enmeshed in contradictions” and suffers from a “God-complex.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this politician and thinker who developed, and sometimes names, a scientific socialist philosophy called Consciencism (“conscience-ism”).

ANSWER: Kwame Nkrumah (“en-KROO-mah”) [or Francis Kwame Nkrumah; accept Nkrumaism]

[10m] Nkrumah described Consciencism as a “Philosophy and Ideology for” this process, whose “conceptual” form was coined by Kwasi Wiredu. An essay titled for this process advocates the Kikuyu language and calls English a “cultural bomb.”

ANSWER: decolonization [or word forms like decolonizing; accept Decolonising the Mind (by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)]

[10e] Nkrumah described Consciencism as drawing on African roots of targeting this broad status, which he contrasted with oligarchy. Advocates of this status debate whether it should be “of outcome” or “of opportunity.”

ANSWER: equality [accept egalitarianism]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	67%	100%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	23.33	100%	100%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	16.67	78%	78%	11%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	33%	100%	0%

Data


UCSD	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley B	UCLA	10	10	10	30
Chicago C	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin A	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin B	Carleton	0	0	10	10
Brown A	BU	0	0	0	0
Carnegie Mellon B	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Case Western A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	South Carolina	0	0	10	10
William & Mary	UNC C	0	10	10	20
Wake Forest	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
TAMU	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Bruin A	0	10	10	20
John Jay College	Vassar A	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Yale A	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Haverford B	0	0	10	10
Columbia C	Penn A	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
Florida A	Florida B	0	10	10	20
UCF B	Valencia A	0	0	10	10
Florida State A	UCF C	0	10	10	20
Carnegie Mellon A	Kenyon	0	10	10	20
Case Western B	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
UNC B	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	UNC D	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	Duke	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois C	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Missoui S&T	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Dartmouth A	0	10	10	20
Harvard A	Harvard B	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Brandeis A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis B	UMass Boston	0	10	10	20
Alberta	UBC	0	10	10	20
UW B	UW A	0	10	10	20
Texas A	ASU	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Louisville A	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
George Washington B	Haverford A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU A	0	10	0	10
Penn B	George Washington A	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	ESF A	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
RIT A	RIT B	0	10	10	20