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Nkrumah’s successful and failed policies
Final Paper
Shamik Patel
Modern History of West Africa 3301
Mr. Kobo
June 9 2016
Shamik Patel
Mr. Kobo
Final Paper
June 9th 2016
Nkrumah 's Successful and failed policies A great leader of Ghana was not solely known by his name but people remember him for what he has done for the nation. Kwame Nkrumah led United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) to gain support and achieve independence for Ghana in 1957. After a conflict in party arises Nkrumah splits because he believed that UGCC goal wasn 't solely to achieve independence and formed a new party, the Convention People 's Party (CPP). After Nkrumah became the first Ghana president through his policies and political strategies it helped Ghana exponentially develop and lead Ghana towards modernization. The period of 1958-1966 would mark as one of the most critical periods for development for many countries in western Africa and Ghana was amongst leading countries in rapid industrialization (Week 3, Economic and political development: Slide 7). To this day, people of Ghana remember Nkrumah not just as the first president but as a great leader for numerous reasons, mainly for his great deal of contribution in gaining independence and post-independence developments. One of the prominent achievements that Dr. Nkrumah had achieved was gaining independence from Great Britain through serving as a leader in both UGCC and CPP. Although both parties
In 1757, Great Britain extended its empire into India. This occupation would not fully end until 1947. In the time between, there were many movements by the Indian people to gain independence from the British. The movement that finally succeeded in winning India’s independence was led by one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi’s methods for fighting against the occupation of the British were very different from those of any of the freedom movements before. And that was why it worked. Gandhi did not agree with the general reasoning of the time: that conflicts could be solved through negotiation and forceful resistance.1 Rather, his faith led him to go
Because of Britian's "mother and son" deal, Ghandi wanted political independence by using Ramarajya where the sovereignty of the people was based on pure moral authority (Doc 1). On the British side of things, Harold Davies, who was part of a debate in the House of Commons on letting India go, believed that India should have their independence even though India hasn't learned how to properly build a democracy. Even though it's not time for Britian to release India, there are mixed emotions about wether or not it should happen. An additional document that could be added would be the pros and the cons of the decolonization of India. With the additional information, a rating could be generated on wether or not they should take India out of their systems. Harold Davies also believes that even though India is not ready for decolonization, they must learn how to build a democracy; therefore, increasing his thoughts to release India (Doc 3). Ho Chi Minh, who was the president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, shows interest in the French imperialists. Ho Chi Minh believes that due to them, his nation was
The people of Ghana would go on to become priests, doctors, and more. People in Ghana always wanted to learn and would take pride in what they were learning. The people would go to great lengths for a good education and would work hard to make books for the people. In Document 4 it talks about how the people of Ghana would live good lives with good jobs they got with their high level education. In Document 7 it shows the way people valued the books they read and made them with love. As Document 4 states, “Here are many doctors, judges, priests, and other learned men that are well maintained at the king's costs” (Document 4). In Document 7 it says, “...there are in Timbuktu numerous judges, teachers and priests, all properly appointed by the king. He greatly honors learning. Many hand-written books imported from Barbary are also sold” (Document 7). Clearly all these citizens have such important roles in the town because they are well educated, and are trustworthy. People would not trust these people if they had little to no education; this is why the people of Ghana valued education. Also, the king loved books and wanted his people to be educated so they could get great jobs. This would boost the economy of Ghana and cause the empire to improve. Everyone in Ghana highly valued education and thought it was quite important everyone was well educated which helped make Ghana what people know
In the 20th century, colonized countries were calling for independence from the European powers that colonized them. Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were two of the most influential people who participated in that. Mandela worked to liberate South Africa from the clutch of apartheid and Gandhi worked to liberate India from Britain. Over the years, they have been compared on their methods and goals. Mandela and Gandhi were very different when looking at their goals for their countries, their methods and their results.
In India, during the 20th century, Gandhi 's successfully fought for his colony 's independence. The English colonized the country,
Throughout Africa and Asia these leaders contested imperialism. Movements that constituted ethnic, religion and regions changed colonial rules while gaining imperial territories like the Quebec movement and the Biafra movement. National action that called for boycott, protest and mass demonstration attention battled its country’s imperialism and with complete support for the greater reason to gain its country’s independency. A recognized leader, Gandhi opposed the British rule in support of peace and civility with boycotts and demonstrations. The Salt March was Gandhi’s most known British opposition.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Ho Chi Minh are the leaders of national independent movements from late 19th to early 20th century. Both of them defeated the colonial rulers and won national independence. This paper will talk about the influences of ideas and circumstances, the goals that they wanted to get and the historical significance of their behaviors.
“Haile Selassie was an emperor of Ethiopia whose influence as an African leader far surpassed the boundaries of his country. Although his popularity declined near the end of his sixty-year reign, Selassie remains a key figure in turning Ethiopia into a modern civilization.”
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, one of the leaders, in favor of the use of non-violent resistance actions to bring about independence for his country. In stark contrast, however, Ho Chi Minh, the other one of them, a military strategist in favor of the use of aggressive or violent movement to free his people from the colonial
The power was taken early, white men came to Umuofia, Nigeria. They were here to colonize. Okonkwo could not wrap his head around the fact that he was no longer in power, he does not make the decisions any longer. He lashed out. “The white man whose power you know too well has ordered this meeting to stop.
He visited India in 1959 and expressed his belief in the peace ideology of Jawaharlal Nehru and Gandhi and was very critical of South Africa's apartheid policy and as an Indian government in 1966. He won the Nehru Prize
India gain their independence. Mahatma used nonviolent civil disobedience during a campaign in 1930 and 1931 to pave the way for Indian independence. This made British open their eyes and try to give the Indians what they want so they could
Great job on your discussion post. You found several similarities and differences between African leaders that I did not think about at first. This week, I also analyzed Jomo Kenyatta from Kenya. As a nationalist leader, he thought rebellion from the European powers was the best option for Kenya to become an independent nation-state. Kenyatta is similar to Okonkwo in “Things Fall Apart” as he desires to rebel against the Christian missionaries but is unsuccessful as there is a lack of support from others.
1multilateralist”. He introduced the concept of African renaissance and was a founding member and the first chairman of the African Union. Through the concept African renaissance he aimed to inspire the construction of a progressive and modern Africa free from poverty, underdevelopment, ignorance and political decay (Olivier, 2003) .He pursued the African development and African realisation agenda, inspired the people of Africa and made them realise that they are responsible and capable of shaping their own destiny. Mbeki did not only speak about African renaissance as an African utopia. He formulated and implemented policies that supported his vision. He persuaded African leaders to adopt the initiative and he persuaded western powers to fund it, pointing out that the development and self-actualisation of Africa is also crucial for the West (Olivier, 2003). Following his resignation as president he established institutions such as the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, which serves “as an intellectual home of the African Renaissance Movement” and the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership