ABSTRACT
Compared to his African presidential contemporaries, (Kaunda, Nyerere, Kenyatta, Obote and others) Kwame Nkrumah remains the most outstanding African political figure of the twentieth century (Mazrui, 1993: 13-21); he is also the most outstanding and prolific pan-Africanist politician. In more than ten books, he details his ideas on colonialism, neo-colonialism, the African personality, colonial freedom, pan-Africanism, and the impact of multinational corporations on African politics and development. He is compared to renown world leaders such as Konrad Adenauer of Germany, David Ben-Gurion of Israel, Charles De Gaulle of France, Castro, JFK, and others who have had “resounding impact (s) on world affairs” and “he will go down in history as the first black African leader of the first black African independent country,” south of the Sahara (Webb, 1964: 1, 137).
