Read the quote below from Kwame Nkrumah. Given political, social, and economic conditions in Africa today, to what extent has the continent achieved the goals expressed by Nkrumah? Support your answer with evidence.
Be sure to provide historical evidence to support your points. This will probably take at least several sentences.
“We meet here today not as Ghanians, Guineans, Egyptians, Algerians, Moroccans, Malians, Liberians, Congolese or Nigerians, but as Africans. Africans united in our resolve to remain here until we have agreed on the basic principles of a new compact of unity among ourselves, which guarantees for us a continental government.”
-Kwame Nkrumah, 1963