Kwarteng, Francis

In 2016 we profiled two important works on Kwame Nkrumah and Nkrumahism by one of the world’s eminent economists, mathematicians, statisticians, historians, writers, philosophers, management scientists, logicians, financial and policy analysts—by Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere, a multidisciplinary academic and researcher ranked among “the World’s Top 100 Leading Thinkers.”

In the meantime we have received an important note from Dr. Dompere, on March 6, 2017, stating that those two scientific texts are finally out. Elsewhere we gave the titles of the books as:

1) “The Theory of Categorial Conversion: Rational Foundations of Nkrumaism.” (http://adonisandabbey.com/book_detail.php?bookid=232) (ISBN: 978-1-909112-67-4).

2) “The Theory of Philosophical Consciencism: Practice Foundations of Nkrumaism”
(http://adonisandabbey.com/book_detail.php?bookid=231) (ISBN: 978-1-909112-66-7)

Well, we will not bore readers with old material except to remind them to review our serial articles “Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkarumah’s Scientific Thinking,” sixteen in all, “Practice Foundations of Nkrumaism,” and “Rational Foundations of Nkrumaism” for some general insights into what these highly technical works are about.

Readers can now also purchase their copies on amazon.com:

a) https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Categorial-Conversion-Foundations-Socio-natural/dp/1909112720/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488842106&sr=1-2&refinements=p_27%3AKofi+Kissi+Dompere

b) https://www.amazon.com/THEORY-PHILOSOPHICAL-CONSCIENCISM-Foundations-Systemicity/dp/1909112739/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488842106&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3AKofi+Kissi+Dompere

Then also, readers interested in all the academic economic/mathematical texts (as well as non-economic/mathematical texts) authored by Dr. Dompere and gathered in one place can also visit WorldCat.org: The World’s Largest Library Catalog to purchase their copies. Here is the complete link:

c) http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n93122486/

Last but certainly not least, we will like our readers to take note of our readiness to furnish them with detailed chapter summaries of these books in the future (the two new texts on Nkruamhism).

Finally, Dr. Dompere is currently working on other dimensions of Nkrumah and his thoughts/ideas (two books) and we promise to share these with our readers once they are done.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kofi Kissi Dompere is a professor of economics at Howard University.

He has authored a number of scientific and scholarly works on economics, philosophy, and decision theory and related fields. He has also authored a number of monographs including twelve monographs with Springer Science Publishers, three with Greenwood Publishers, and two with Adonis-Abbey Publishers.

His teaching areas include Economic Theory, Mathematical Economics, International Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis as decision theory.

His current research foci are on Theory of Development Process, Qualitative mathematics of transformations, epistemics and mathematics of fuzzy phenomena and their application in economic decision, mathematics of transformations and General information theory.

He is the producer and host of a radio program “African Rhythms and Extensions” on WPFW 89.3 FM, in Washington D.C., USA, a member of Pacifica Foundation.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere, one of America’s and the world’s most respected economists and academics, a brilliant mathematician and philosopher as well, has finally published two highly scientific, technical and sophisticated volumes on Nkrumah and Nkrumahism.

In other words not only is he a man of theory but that he is also a man of practice. He knows how political economy and comparative advantage truly work, particularly as it should have been in the case of the African world from the standpoint of consciencism, fundamentally Nkrumahism. Categorial conversation is key to these formulations in both theory and practical assertion.

As a matter of fact he wrote his doctoral dissertation on categorial conversion, the focus of Nkrumah’s “Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization,” and brings his extensive knowledge and expertise from that field to bear on his vigorous philosophical, mathematical and scientific analysis of Nkrumahism. His approach to the scientific method is commendable.

An award-winning author, professor of economics, and academic widely recognized around the world for his highly technical texts and publications and cutting-edge research, as well as one of the distinguished faces in America and the world known for bridging the frontiers of mathematics, science and the humanities/liberal arts through his cutting-edge research, the polymath Dr. Dompere is also the author of several economics-cum-mathematics texts used around the world and American universities/colleges and the following highly recommended texts:

a) “Polyrhythmicity: Foundations of African Philosophy”

b) “African Union: Pan-African Foundations”

c) “Africentricity and African Nationalism”

In other words, he is widely known for the rigor of his mathematical formulations and modeling of complex qualitative problem. For instance, Prof. Dompere’s contributions to fuzzy logic, fuzzy mathematics, and fuzzy theory as they relate to academic economics and the practice of political economy have widely been acknowledged by academic economists, mathematicians, institutions, and Springer Publishing, one of his major publishers which also happens to be one of the world’s largest carriers of scientific titles and journals; as well as of Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, and so on.

More than 3500 libraries carry Prof. Dompere’s academic works around the world (see WorldCat for Prof. Dompere’s scholarly works; WorldCat houses tens of thousands of libraries in at 160 countries; it is also “the world largest and most comprehensive catalogue of library resources from around the world.” See OCLC.org for additional information! Amazon.com also has them).

Also, Prof. Dompere’s high-profile academic standing in the American Academy, notwithstanding all the above, is exemplified by his respected membership in a number of prominent institutions: The American Society for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest scientific organization; the New York Academy of Sciences; the Econometric Society, an international society of academic economists; the Golden Key National Honor Society; the American Economic Association (AEA); the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement (DISA); and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS).

Prof. Dompere is also associated with Scientific American; Fuzzy Sets and Systems; the International Journal of Development Economics; the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Theory and Decision; and the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems. Further, Prof. Dompere has also served as Chairman of the Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee (APT) of Howard University’s Economics Committee, as well as of the Curriculum Committee and the Macroeconomic Examination Committee.

He has also been a member of the Graduate School’s Task Force on Environment Science at Howard University. He has also worked with a number of international organizations (the World Bank, for instance), American institutions, and a number of governments from around the world (for instance, the Organization of American States (OAS)), etc.

To remind our readers once again, he has been ranked among “The World’s 100 Leading Thinkers.”

Last but not least, for those uneducated and skeptical minds that are of the view that there has never been a systematized formal body of knowledge on political economy or a science of political economy called Nkrumahism, this is finally it. These two highly technical texts put those uninformed plaints to eternal rest.

Again, as far as we can tell no scholarship or academic text on the subject matter comes close in terms of the analytic depth and sheer range of mathematical, philosophical and scientific rigor with which Dr. Dompere, a world-class economist, mathematician, philosopher, historian, management scientist, and logician approaches the subject.

In fact, there is nothing like it in the entire field of African political economy and philosophy if we may put it succinctly. The technical sophistication of methodology, the denseness of formal auctorial language, and the multifaceted (or multidisciplinary) approach to this rigorous study of Nkrumahism put the subject matter in a class of its own.

The average or casual reader is, therefore, not going to find these remarkable texts friendly at all as he writes mostly for experts. Beyond this, the two books must also be in our parliament, in the Flagstaff House, and in our major libraries and research institutions and think tanks (as well as those of the world beyond the African world).

Then also their contents should be explored and debated and made a dialectic fixture of national political discourse, of policy strategies and tactics. Our students in the fields of engineering, management science and operations research, policy studies, mathematics, political science, logic, economics, political economy, diplomacy and international relations, political sociology, philosophy and history, literature, science and technology, computer science, leadership studies, law, sociology and development sociology, sustainable development and political psychology need to explore the contents of these books.

A SHORT LIST OF PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS DR. KOFI KISSI DOMPERE HAS PUBLISHED HIS PAPERS, SERVED AS A REFEREE, AND/OR HELD/HOLDS OFFICIAL MEMBERSHIP IN:

1) Encyclopedia of Capitalism

2) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology

3) International Journal of Production Economics

4) Theory, Fuzzy Sets and Systems

5) Engineering Costs and Production Economics

6) Cybernetics and Systems Research

7) Fuzzy Sets and Systems

8) Fuzzy Information and Decision Processes

9) Applied Systems and Cybernetics

10) Approximate Reasoning in Decision Analysis

11) INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science)

12) ORSA/TIMS (INFORMS)

13) Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

14) Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Theory and Decision

15) The New York Academy of Sciences

16) The American Society for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

17) Econometric Society

18) American Economic Association

19) The Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement

20) Scientific American

21) The International Journal of Development Economics

IN PRAISE OF DR. KOFI KISSI DOMPERE

“The bulk of Professor Dompere’s research and publications lie within the highly technical field of ‘fuzzy system’s research… This degree on specialization is part of a complicated process that hopefully leads to further insights and what we proudly admire as scientific progress when all works well…One must try to assess not only the value of a person’s contribution to work going on in a specialized field, but also the likely value of the specialized area to the profession as a whole…

“The works I have reviewed, as well as the publication and conference participation records, clearly demonstrate that Professor Dompere is a valuable contributor to fuzzy systems theory. His paper, ‘The Theory of Fuzzy Decisions’ published in ‘Approximate Reasoning in Decision Analysis’ (M.M. Gupta and E. Sanchez editors, North-Holland, 1982) is a clearly early valuable contribution written at the highest mathematical level.

“However, this is a field that requires not only high level math skills but also considerable philosophical sophistication…What is more interesting is Professor Dompere’s work applying the theoretical insights he developed early in his career to a number of areas of economic research. He demonstrates how insights from fuzzy systems theory clarify overlooked complexities in capital theory in… However, several new developments indicate that the work of Professor Dompere and others in fuzzy systems theory may be of greater importance than most economists realized only a few years ago.

“In conclusion, Professor Dompere has been a valuable contributor to a highly specialized field of economics that has recently proven to be of far greater interest and value than most economics expected…” (Robin Hahnel, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, American University/Portland State University)

“Pan-African Analysis: This provocative and idealistic question leads to Prof. Dompere’s two works on African Union and Polyrhythmicity. I studied African politics and literature at Penn and Morgan State, and have a deep admiration for some of the historic figures and ideas that Dompere that celebrates in these two books. I will not comment on them, other than to make two observations. First, what shines through here is the vision of Kwame Nkrumah—and of other legendary figures—that insisted on Pan-Africanism as a crucial element in Africa’s effort to break away from colonialism and neo-colonialism, in its effort to develop and to become prosperous.

“Second: in this respect, the effort at thinking of African development as a whole, as having a collective logic and as demanding from its people that they think collectively of all Africans’ collective well-being, is completely consistent with the national social planning approach that Prof. Dompere has been working out in his formal economic-theory work. In effect, one solution among others is a Pan-African approach; and this will be best for Africa. In these works, of course, this prescription comes fully charged by the author’s love and devotion for the poetry, beauty, literature, and vitality of Africa.

“But then, what do we do if micro-structures don’t work like that-don’t function as component parts of optimizing social matrices? Dompere’s answer, as a man of Africa, is that we must fight for Africa—or if we are not from there, for America…One is the beautiful cloud of the dream of a Pan-African path to development, arrived at as colonial empires crumbled. The other is the n-dimensional cloud of mathematical symmetry and elegant possibility, arrived at through mental exercises in thinking the world of production and consumption. On these clouds, I feel at home and yet above the earth.

“And perhaps that is the role of a theorist and a meta-historian—to remind his readers what is possible, what can be and even what could not be, so they have something to hold onto as they make their way along the alleyways and streets down on the hard, cold ground…” (Gary A. Dymski, Professor of Economics, Executive Director, University of California (Riverside).

We shall return…