Kwame Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-African

This study analyzes contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d'etat of Nkrumah's government in February 1966. This study employs an Aftrocentric approach and a synthesis of tools from a variety of disciplines used by scholars in Black Studies and African Area studies.

1. Introduction

1

(12)

A Presentation of Key Terms

7

(6)

Africology and 'Africalogy'

7

(1)

African Centered

8

(1)

African Liberation Movement (ALM)

9

(1)

Pan-African Nationalist Movement (PALAM) and the African Unity Movement (AUM)

9

(1)

African Personality

10

(1)

Collectivist African Personality

10

(1)

Composite African

10

(1)

Pan-Africanism

11

(1)

Philosophical Consciencism

11

(1)

Centrism

11

(1)

Object-Subject

11

(1)

Traditional Rulers

12

(1)

2. Method to Examine Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-African Agency

13

(12)

Afrocentricity

13

(1)

A Synthetic Afrocentric Paradigm

14

(11)

Individual and Organizational Agency in the Intellectual and Social Landscape

15

(4)

Psychological, Political, and Philosophical Location

19

(2)

Historicity and Hermeneutics

21

(1)

Critique and Delinking

22

(1)

Denunciation of Hegemony

22

(1)

Assertion of an African Culture, Personality, and Genius

23

(2)

3. The Basis of Nkrumah's Contribution

25

(20)

Custom Locatives

25

(2)

Primary Source Data-Nkrumah

27

(9)

Nkrumah's Speeches

28

(1)

Nkrumah and the Pan-African Centered Perspective

29

(2)

Nkrumah's Written Works

31

(2)

Autobiographical Works

33

(1)

Nkrumah's Theoretical Works

34

(2)

Testimonial of Key African Revolutionists

36

(1)

Secondary Sources

36

(5)

Comrade-Authors

39

(2)

Tertiary Sources

41

(4)

Pan-African Historiography

41

(2)

Biographers

43

(2)

4. The Pan-African Nationalistic Trend in African Culture: An Afrocentric Presentation

45

(18)

The Pan-African Centered Perspective

46

(2)

Definitions and Typology

48

(11)

The Problem of Eurocentric Hegemony and African Phenomenon

48

(1)

Pan-Africanism as a Racial Concept

49

(3)

African Centered Version of Pan-Africanism

52

(3)

Pan-Africanism's Typology (Revolutionary versus Retrogressive)

55

(4)

An Afrocentric Perspective to Understand Pan-African Development

59

(2)

Historical Origins of Pan-Africanism

59

(1)

Opposition to Pan-Africanism During the Modern Era

60

(1)

Conclusion

61

(2)

5. Major Tributary Events That Influenced Nkrumah's Pan-African Agency

63

(24)

Periodization of Pan-African Nationalism

63

(22)

'Liberty' and 'Unity' as Pan-African Themes

65

(3)

Abyssinia: A Pan-African Nationalist Symbol of a Liberated Zone

68

(7)

The Liberated Ghanaian State and Pan-African Nationalism

75

(10)

Conclusion

85

(2)

6. Nkrumah and the Pan-African Movement 1945-1966

87

(42)

Part 1: Pan-African Conference to Leader of Gold Coast Government 1945-1951

87

(13)

Nkrumah and the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress

87

(3)

West African National Secretariat

90

(1)

The Circle

91

(1)

Organization of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC)

92

(4)

Organization of the Convention People's Party (CPP)

96

(2)

The Accra Evening News and Other Publications

98

(1)

Pan-African Agency in the Gold Coast Colony

99

(1)

Part 2: From Leader of Gold Coast Government to Leader of Pan-African Liberated Zone 1951-1956

100

(5)

Global Reconnections and the Push for West African Unity

100

(3)

The Opposition

103

(2)

Part 3: From Leader of Pan-African Liberated Zone to Founder of Pan-African Nationalism 1957-1966

105

(24)

Ghana Becomes Politically Independent and Nkrumah Declares Pan-African Policy

105

(3)

Conference of Independent African States (CIAS)

108

(2)

Nkrumah s Trip Abroad

110

(1)

Ghana-Guinea Union (G-GU)

111

(1)

The All-African Peoples Conference (AAPC)

111

(3)

Inauguration of the All-African Trade Union Federation

114

(3)

The Sanniquellie Agreement

117

(1)

Tenth Anniversary of the CPP

118

(3)

Tenth Anniversary of the Positive Action Campaign

121

(2)

The Freedom Fighters Conference

123

(1)

The Organization of African Unity

124

(5)

7. Nkrumah's Organization of Key Pan-African Agents

129

(20)

Organization of African Women for Pan-African Agency

130

(4)

Organization of African Youth for Pan-African Agency

134

(5)

Institutions of Higher Learning, Africanists, Institute of African Studies and the Encyclopaedia Africana

139

(10)

8. Nkrumahism: An Ideology to Enhance Pan-African Agency

149

(12)

Ideological Base to Achieve Pan-Africanism

154

(2)

Philosophic Thought

156

(3)

A Summation of Nkrumah's Philosophic and Ethical Statements

159

(2)

The Cardinal Ethical Principles

159

(1)

Analytical Focus

160

(1)

9. Afrucentric Summary of Nkrumah's Major Contributions

161

(10)

Linked Traditions of West African Nationalism and Pan-African Nationalism

163

(1)

Development of the First Pan-African Liberated State in Modern History

164

(1)

Elevation of Pan-African Agency to the Level of Nation-States

165

(2)

The Concept of Socialist African Union as the Optimal Level for the African Personality, Genius, Community, and Pan-African Agency

167

(1)

A Philosophy to Defend the Ideology of the African Revolution

167

(1)

The First African State Sponsored Afrocentric Research

168

(3)

10. Notes

171

(8)

11. Works Cited

179

(10)

12. Index

189

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