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Today I went to a lecture which gave us information about African American culture. The instructor was very active and humorous. He gave us a very African beginning of the lecture; he thanked his ancestors, his family, and the government in the very beginning of his speech. The lecture mainly talked about a representative person in African American—-Kwame Nkrumah. Kwame Nkrumah had a very important contribution to organizing the Africans and fight for their independence and freedom. The African Union declared at its Assembly’s 13th Ordinary Session, that 21 September, 2009 should be celebrated by all member states of the union as the 100th celebration of the birthday anniversary of Kwame Nkrumah, who graduated in 1939 with his bachelor degree and got his master degree in 1942 because of his vital role in establishing the African Union and his vital role in the liberation of the continent.
Nkrumah linked the traditions of West African nationalism and Pan-African nationalism. African nationalism is the nationalist political movement for one unified Africa, or the less significant objective of the acknowledgment of African tribes by instituting their own states, as well as the safeguarding of their indigenous customs. Pan-African nationalism represents the aggregation of the historical, cultural, spiritual, artistic, scientific and philosophical legacies of Africans from past times to the present. Pan-African nationalism as an ethical system traces its origins from ancient times, and promotes values that are the product of the African civilization and the struggles against slavery, racism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism. Kwame Nkrumah was a Pan-African activist who became the first president of Ghana. He initiated and developed the first Pan-African liberated state—-free government in modern history. He elevated Pan-African agency to the level of countries. Nkrumah also developed the notion of socialist African union as the optimal zone for the African personality, genius and agency. While the US is a capitalism country, which means they want anything that use to bring back a profit, the capitalism system gave the African Americans a notion that they don not need to go to school but just need a job. However, Nkrumah gave them a notion of to be a better human. Nkrumah offered a formal philosophy to defend the ideology of the African revolution. At first, Americans had to chain the African Americans or they would run away. However, overtime, through the way of education, they confused people; they chain people from their mind. What Nkrumah did is he freed African Americans’ mind. He initiated the first African state sponsored effort for afro centric reserves.
Nkrumah told four stages of independence of Africans to delegate at the African Freedom Fighters conference in Accra in 1958. They were attainment, consolidation, unity and community between free African States and economic and social reconstruction of Africa. Africa is poor because they have been stolen resource from Africa—-Africans. Nkrumah made a statement the conference to persuade African independent countries to unite together to be a “the united states of Africa”, so they could be more powerful.
This speech impressed me by the fight of Africans to be independent. The ethnic of African Americans have fought for around 400 years and now, they are equal to anyone in the world. The descendent is the past, Africans can be black and be Americans, French or whatever they want.

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