Rethinking Kwame Nkrumah\u27s Pan-Africanism and its Legacies in Post-Colonial Africa

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