NDERITU: Pan-Africanism should gel us better than printed cloth
Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah talks to newsmen at the White House on March 8, 1961 after a conference with President Kennedy. Nkrumah was one of the early proponents of a united Africa. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Quite a number of Africans look back at the Kwame Nkrumah era of pan-Africanist freedom fighters and their pursuit for African dignity, justice, poverty eradication and freedom as an era of achievement they would want to replicate.
Many us declare ourselves modern-day pan-Africanists. We classify ourselves so by being relevant in dealing with specific issues, rather than pursuing, like the Kwame Nkrumah’s, an approach whose elements were deliberately developed and widely shared.
