Nkrumah’s argument for a united African state solves a lot of problems on the African continent, Mwalimu Nyerere said: unity will not immediately solve all the African problems but without it, we cannot start to solve the fundamental problems.
For Nkrumah, he saw a threat to the African state which was and still is the over reliance on the people who brought these religions and cultures into Africa, of course he did not immediately mention the Arabs as he had not seen the immediate rise again of countries like UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey etc., but what he was fighting for was the strengthening of Africa so it cannot be over influenced and controlled by these groups as today we are seeing the oversized influence by the middle east and turkey in the Northern Africa territories of Libya, Somalia, Sudan and even Ethiopia.
Nkrumah wanted to pull the Northern African Arabs southwards and Africans themselves towards what he calls the African personality and identity. This cannot be done if Africa is not strong, everyone wants to associate with the powerful not the weak and poor.
Nkrumah mentions that Egypt can only be in a position to contribute to middle eastern peace and stability if it is backed by a Unified Africa to which it will be a part of as an African state or territory.
Nkrumah’s outlook is still the solution today until there is another serious thinker to arise. For now, there is none who has reached the level of getting to power in order to not only articulate but implement this thinking.
The African Continental Unity party is the movement building towards the realisation of this Objective of unifying the whole Africa. This is an inevitable institution which Kwame Nkrumah himself recommended. The African People must have a Party which brings them all together to build a new Africa and not to divide them into disintegration for them to become prey to external exploitation.
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