In West Africa, the former colony of the Gold Coast became well known for its charismatic independence leader Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumah not only successfully led Ghana to independence in 1957 after a peaceful independence movement and negotiations with the British, but he founded a movement called Pan-Africanism in which, he hoped, the nations of Africa could unite in a "United States of Africa" that would achieve parity with the other great powers of the world for the betterment of Africans everywhere.
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