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Chapter 2
Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and the Future of Africa
L. Adele Jinadu
Theorizing Pan-Africanism as a Social Field of Action
The 50th anniversary of the independence of Ghana in March 2007 provides an opportunity for reflecting on the contribution and continuing relevance of Nkrumah to the idea of pan-Africa or pan-Africanism. What is the nature of his contribution? What is its significance? What does it suggest about the link between pan-Africanism as idea or theory, and as practice or movement? What light does it shed on the limits and possibilities of continental integration in Africa, as reflected, for instance, in recent proposals (African Union, 2006) before the African Union for the establishment of an African Union Government and a United States of Africa?