ABSTRACT
In the early years of the post-World War II anti-colonial struggle, Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah, declared, ‘Seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else shall follow.’ By seizing and then using state power, he implied, Africa's former colonies could transform themselves into modern and prosperous states. More than that: he called on the new governments to join together into a continental union, utilizing their continent's rich resources to build a powerful industrialized federation.
