To move a continent : Kwame Nkrumah's role in African affairs, 1957-1966
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1970
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Moss, Robert John
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Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah played a part in African affairs
that was disproportionate to its diminutive size and strength.
Thus, Accra became a Mecca for Pan-Africanists and
revolutionaries; almost the entire Ghanaian Army served
in the Congo; the public treasury was raided so that loans
could be made to impoverished friends like Guinea and Mali;
and Nkrumah's own voice echoed through the conference-halls
of the continent. Ghana's foreign policy during these
years baffled those who believed that a small state must
accept a quiet waiting role in international affairs.
When Nkrumah finally aspired beyond continental leadership
and set out to end the Vietnam war and rouse the "fallow
world" against the dominance of the great power-blocs, many
observers thought that arrogance had ended in illusion.
Certainly, the man who began by exploring the possibilities
open to a new nation ended by sacrificing the interests of
his people to a chimaera.
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10.25911/5d74e8b77f373