The main used material is Kwame Nkrumah’s speech and other materials are to help you understand the speech more and get the answers for the following questions:
- each question to be answered in one paragraph (300 words)
- what is the main messagespoints delivered by Kwame Nkrumah in 1963 on the occasion of the founding of the Organization of African Unity AU?
- what is the situation in Africa during that time (1950 – 1960s)? What are the effects of colonialism on Africa?
- why Africa needs African Unity AU?
- what are the functions of African Unity?
- What is the concept of Pan-Africanism? How it is related to Nkrumah’s speech?
- Why did the ideas of Nkrumah failed? Why where they described unrealistic and impractical or difficult to implement?
- What happened to African resources at that time (1950 – 1960s)?
- What are effects of colonial borders on Africa?
- If all Nkrumah’s ideas where implemented, will Africa be better today? Explain
- What are the challenges of the African unity and why it did not fulfill the needs of Africa?
- why some suggested that Nkrumah approach should be gradual? and what was his point of view in regards to this matter?
- why some states in Africa prefer collaboration with external states or to be under their colonizer ?