PROPOSED TOPIC
FOR SEMINAR II (P.hD) RESEARCH IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF
PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY
OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA
DEPT: PHILOSOPHY
FACULTY: SOCIAL SCIENCES
ABSTRACT
Many centuries ago, Europeans dominated, controlled
and manipulated Africa in the name of
colonization. The white man claimed that his aim or mission was to civilize Africa. But under this fake assertion, Africans were
dehumanized, robbed and made a mere functionary both at home and in Diaspora.
But post-colonial Africa is immersed in the
search for self-identity and perhaps self-actualization. It is against this
background that the anti-colonial struggle took the forms of cultural political
nationalism. Outstanding in this group of African nationalists were Kwame
Nkrumah W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Julius K. Nyerere etc., but on the course
of this Seminar work wish to belabour heavily on Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana who
developed both active, social and intellectual tools to consolidate these
ideas. In his Opinion, Pan-Africanism is the vision for central government and
this vision will help to entrench her relevance in the international scene.
This seminar also will as well try to know if ways set out by Kwame Nkrumah in his bid to
practicalize pan-Africanism actually yielded any fruit at last, following the
loopholes found in his goals, aims and ideology.
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
of the Study
1.2 Statement
of the Problem
1.3 Scope
of the Study
1.4 Purpose
of the Study
1.5 Significance
of the Study
1.6 Method
of the Study
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
CHAPTER THREE
THE OVERVIEW
OF PAN-AFRICANISM
3.1 Pan-Africanism
as a Philosophy
3.2 Pan-
Africanism as a Will to Live
3.3 Pan-Africanism
as a Will to Power
3.4 Pan-Africanism
as a social Action.
CHAPTER FOUR
NKRUMAH AND
THE AFRICAN DREAM
4.1 Brief
Historical Background of Kwame Nkrumah:
4.2 Nkrumah
and the Critique of Pan-Africanism:
4.3 Nkrumah
and Pan-Africa Agencies:
4.4 Nkrumah’s
Ideology for New African: As a way to Development
CHAPTER FIVE
EVALUATION AND
CONCLUSION
5.1 Evaluation
5.2 Conclusion
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