ABSTRACT
Garvey, James and Padmore provided an important intellectual foundation for Nkrumah's future vision of a united Africa that underpinned Ghana's Seven-Year Development Plan, and we focus, in this chapter, on the way that this ideological vision of the future shaped the Plan. Because the ideology of Pan-Africanism lay behind Nkrumah's project, author's analysis of the future visions of Pan-Africanist doctrines before moving on to Ghana's experience with development planning. By the 1940s the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) attracted a cluster of radical Pan-Africanists whose vision of the future focused on anticolonialism and socialism for the independent African states. Defining neocolonialism as the biggest threat to African independence, he argued that only a unified continent was to achieve full economic independence. Part of his political vision was a future strong African union government to be charged with the economic planning of the future of the continent.
