Question

Why was Nkrumah opposed to colonialism?

Answer 1

Kwame Nkrumah as a pioneering pan-Africanist and Ghana's independence leader was opposed to colonialism as a result of his staunch beleif that Africans are good enought o take control of their countries resources and by extension, its people.

He detested the idea whereby Africans takes orders from the colonial masters before anything usefu could be carried out in the country hence the reason why he rallied around other African leaders in other countries and impressed them on the need for the countries to be liberated from the colonial rule.

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Answer 2

Answer: He believed the colonial power's primary objective was to promote their own economic advantage through suppression and exploitation.

Explanation: Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast’s drive for independence from Britain and presided over its emergence as the new nation of Ghana. He headed the country from independence in 1957 until he was overthrown by a coup in 1966.

He regarded colonialism as the policy by which a foreign power binds territories to itself by political ties, with the primary object of promoting her own economic advantage. He embarked on the "positive action campaign" whereby he denounced the British plan for constitutional reform as bogus and fraudulent and encouraged strikes, boycotts, agitation and propaganda

Intended to force Britain to agree to immediate self-government by Gold coast(present day Ghana)