Nkrumah, African Awakening and Neo-colonialism: How Black America Awakened Nkrumah and Nkrumah Awakened Black America.

SOCIAL influence; NKRUMAH, Kwame, 1909-1972; AFRICAN American nationalism; AFRICAN American civil rights in the 20th century; GHANAIAN politics & government, 1957-1979; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; 21ST century (Literary period)

GHANA; UNITED States

An essay is presented exploring the mutual international influences shared between the African American Black power movement and Blacks in Africa. Details are particularly given outlining how the political activities of African Americans during the 1950s and 1960s were linked to political activities in Africa and how those African political movements further influenced the African nationalist culture of the U.S. The career of the Ghana Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah is then highlighted.