ABSTRACT
Black Americans in Ghana found some framework for racial identification with the Ghanaian people and culture, reawakening in the writers a sense of racial pride. Black consciousness, black pride, black power: these were some of the values African Americans sustained and brought home with them from Ghana or they were reawakened to a broader community of political activists who espoused solidarity with oppressed people worldwide. Ghana represented the culmination of their involvement with a racially progressive period, and their creative work was inspired, directly or indirectly, by the Nkrumah era. All of the writers came to Ghana during an exciting time, a unique moment in world history, and most of them were transformed positively by the experience, a situation that has contributed to the greater fulfillment of African American letters in subsequent years. There are many reasons why black writers left the United States for Africa in the 1960s.
