The underground master: The elective affinities between Marcus Garvey and Kwame Nkrumah

Abstract

The most remarkable feature of the Ghanian politic and ideologue Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) is his radical pan-africanism. The term Africa had for him the meaning of motherland, nation to be built and regained. This pan-african impetus was the result of a visible maturation in his path, in wich the jamaican thinker Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) performed a fundamental part. Through the critic of the main piece of woek from Nkrumah concerning the pan-africanism, Africa Must Unite! (1963), we cover in this article the intelectual relation between both, seeking to demonstrate the points in wich they converge such as the striking ones.