Rethinking Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-Africanism and its Legacies in Post-Colonial Africa
Location
CSU 253
Start Date
18-4-2016 2:10 PM
End Date
18-4-2016 3:10 PM
Student's Major
History
Student's College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mentor's Name
Agnes Odinga-Oluoch
Mentor's Department
History
Mentor's College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Description
This paper will examine Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Pan African vision as an ideology and a strategy to forge African development. In a recent AU strategy paper, this vision still lingers in the horizon and perhaps seems elusive than it was in the 1960s. Why has pan-Africanism not found resonance in Africa? This is the question this research paper seeks to answer by interrogating Dr. Kwame’s vision, post his death pan-Africanism rendering and an assessment of development ideologies and development paths in post-colonial Africa. Based on preliminary research findings, Pan-Africanism is captive to international organizations, colonial legacies, ethnicity and leadership. The paper will be based on secondary and primary sources housed at Minnesota State University, Mankato and around the United States repositories on Africa. This paper will make a contribution to the growing literature on post-colonial studies, development discourses and governance.
Rethinking Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-Africanism and its Legacies in Post-Colonial Africa
CSU 253
This paper will examine Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Pan African vision as an ideology and a strategy to forge African development. In a recent AU strategy paper, this vision still lingers in the horizon and perhaps seems elusive than it was in the 1960s. Why has pan-Africanism not found resonance in Africa? This is the question this research paper seeks to answer by interrogating Dr. Kwame’s vision, post his death pan-Africanism rendering and an assessment of development ideologies and development paths in post-colonial Africa. Based on preliminary research findings, Pan-Africanism is captive to international organizations, colonial legacies, ethnicity and leadership. The paper will be based on secondary and primary sources housed at Minnesota State University, Mankato and around the United States repositories on Africa. This paper will make a contribution to the growing literature on post-colonial studies, development discourses and governance.
Recommended Citation
Asong-Morfaw, Nana Afua. "Rethinking Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-Africanism and its Legacies in Post-Colonial Africa." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 18, 2016.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2016/oral-session-12/3
