Making sense of decades of debate about Nkrumah’s pan-African ideas

Origin date: 4 March 2020
Updated: 5 Mar 2020

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When the flag of the newly independent Ghana was raised against the night sky of Accra 63 years ago, the whole world was looking on. It was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain its independence from colonial rule. Other Africans watched with trepidation given that so much hung on its success. Other, mainly Western countries, watched with curiosity, or, in the case of colonial powers, with concern. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was about to embark on a new political experiment.

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01Matteo, G. (2020). Making sense of decades of debate about Nkrumah’s pan-African ideas, from The Conversation, [online], 4 March 2020. Available at https://theconversation.com/making-sense-of-decades-of-debate-about-nkrumahs-pan-african-ideas- . Accessed on 5 March 2020.

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South African History Online. (2020, March 5). Making sense of decades of debate about Nkrumah’s pan-African ideas. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150054

South African History Online (2020) 'Making sense of decades of debate about Nkrumah’s pan-African ideas', South African History Online, 5 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150054 (Accessed: 13 October 2026).

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"Making sense of decades of debate about Nkrumah’s pan-African ideas." South African History Online, 5 Mar. 2020, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150054. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Making sense of decades of debate about Nkrumah’s pan-African ideas." South African History Online. March 5, 2020. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150054.