Support to African Nationalist Movements by Nkrumah’s Ghana

Abstract

Between 1957 and 1966, Ghana hosted a number of African nationalist parties and it helped them in achieving independence and in strengthening their power inside the nations. Ghana granted them financial aid and it provided political training to party members. Kwame Nkrumah wanted particularly to promote the Convention People's Party as a model for all the nationalist parties. Some institutions had been created in Ghana with the purpose of achieving these goals. The Ideological Institute of Winneba was established in 1961 to teach to both CPP members and other African nationalists how to work with the masses in the process of nation building. This paper illustrates the action of these institutions, such as the Ideological Institute and the Bureau of African Affairs, using mostly new and unpublished archival sources.