Kwame Nkrumah
1909 – 1972 · Ghana · Politics, Political Economy
Led Ghana to independence and theorised neo-colonial economic dependence.
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- Karl Marx
1818 – 1883 · Political Economy, Philosophy
Neo-Colonialism applies Marxist analysis of capital to postcolonial Africa.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
1868 – 1963 · Philosophy, History
Pan-Africanism moves from Du Bois's congresses to Nkrumah's independent Ghana.
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