DREAMS OF A UNITED CONTINENT: KWAME NKRUMAH AND PAN-AFRICAN STRUGGLES FOR CONTINENTAL UNITY.

History and International Studies

This article explores Pan-Africanism and Kwame Nkrumah's contribution to the growth of African unity. It argues that Pan-Africanism was a global movement to unite Africans against racial oppression and exploitation associated with European hegemony. It emerged as a response to the inferior social status to which Africans in White dominated societies were consigned. The article also talked about a brief history of KWAME NKRUMAH and his growth towards the dream of Pan-Africanism as a political and cultural phenomenon that regards Africa, Africans and African Descendants in the Diaspora as a single unit. This study adopted the qualitative approach in historical research to investigate and analyze information from both primary and secondary sources. The study further argues that the greatest impediment to the realization of Nkrumah's dream of African unity to as the issue of the newly acquired sovereignty by the African states. Indeed, the newly independent states of Africa viewed Nkrumah's dream of a "United States of Africa" with common planning, defense, diplomacy and foreign policy goals with great suspicion and even hostility.

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