Kwame Nkrumah and the Dream of African Unity

In Kwame Nkrumah and the Dream of African Unity Lansiné Kaba describes some of the epic phases of Kwame Nkrumahs struggle for the independence of his country Ghana and the unity of his continent Africa. These two tasks were gigantic complex and even frightening. Each separately was promethean in scope perhaps beyond the capacity of a single leader however able and determined. Yet Nkrumah dared to accomplish them and thus deserves a place among the great figures of his world. Far from being a hagiography or a biography or an essay on the ideology and foreign politics of Nkrumah this work follows the adventures of his dream of African unity from the years studying across the Atlantic to the Accra Summit in 1965 and the coup détat in 1966. Throughout the analysis tries to understand the genesis of the dream and the effort required for its realization. These discussions deal with the difficulties of implementing a policy of regrouping independent states into a continental body.