Ghana's Foreign Policy

Ghanas Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumahs Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism examines Ghanas foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on the enduring legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. This book also analyzes the complexity of post-independence foreign policy decision making and the influence of the post-colonial narrative during the Cold War. In this study, Charles Asante argues that the significance and continuity of Nkrumahs legacy is often attributed to his pan-Africanist leadership on the African continent, fervently articulating an independent African foreign policy. Leaders like Nkrumah, considered themselves as the redeemers of Africas political and economic vulnerability from its colonial experiences. Asante finds that, in contrast to the positive experience associated with his independence movement for Ghana, Nkrumah could not build the same kind of vision, engagement, and networks among other African nationalist leaders necessary for successful promotion of a Pan-African region. Despite Nkrumahs own foreign policy failures in the Congo, the United States of Africa project, and his sudden overthrow in 1966, Nkrumahs Pan-African vision is still promoted as an important foreign policy objective by Ghanas politicians, public servants, military, and academics.