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Why didn’t Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and Sukarno in Indonesia align with the US or USSR? What advantages did that give them?

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Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and Sukarno in Indonesia didn't align with the US or USSR because they were firm believers in the foreign policy of neutrality. They had no special ties or preferences for the Soviet Union or the United States.

The advantage that this gave them was to remain neutral in the face of conflict, which they thought was positive to bring peace to the region during the Cold War years.

These two countries were part of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that played a key role during the Cold War Years to help bring peace and stabilization

The NAM organization started in 1955 due to the Asia-Africa Conference of Bandung, Indonesia, to the initiative of Asian and African countries such as India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Ghana, and Ceylon.

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