Pan-Africanism, Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, African Unity.

The Pan-African ideology is one of the most important political thoughts Africans in and outside the continent have experienced. What started as a movement to demand and possibly force an end to colonialism, discrimination and enslavement of Africans transformed into a strong ideology and thus, pushed for the unity and unionization of Africa and Africans. Although this concept attracted many leaders in Africa and in the diaspora, the role played by Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah remains crucial in understanding and analyzing the thoughts and processes of implementing and sustaining the ideology in Africa. This thesis seeks to examine the role Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah played in promoting the Pan-African ideology; what their motivation was; the opportunities and challenges the ideology faced as propounded and espoused by the leaders. This research argues that while Ghana and Nkrumah gave their best in promoting the ideology, the process and implementation of such a huge project would have required a more complex and well-organized approach in order to overcome the vast geography, immense and divergent challenges in the different parts of Africa.