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 Form 3 History: Emergence and growth of nationalism in Africa online lessons

How Kwame Nkrumah contributed to the liberation struggle in Africa.

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How Kwame Nkrumah contributed to the liberation struggle in Africa.
(a) He funded nationalists in other countries e.g. Guinea and Algeria.
(b) He supported other African leaders who faced political threats from their former colonial masters.
(c) When some countries were faced with threats from their former colonial masters after independence like in the case of Patrice Lumumba in DRC, Nkrumah provided them with his support.
(d) He championed trade unionism in Africa.
(e) He attended pan-African congress in 1945 which was key to defining the liberation struggles in Africa.
(f) He initiated the formation of the Ghana- Guinea Union in 1958 as a practical step towards building African unity.


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