What fundamental non-alignment principle guided Ghana's founding foreign policy under Kwame Nkrumah?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. 'We face neither East nor West: we face forward'
- Step 1: Kwame Nkrumah articulated this famous foreign policy maxim in 1960. Step 2. It emphasized African autonomy free from Cold War vassalage to either Washington or Moscow. Answer: 'We face neither East nor West: we face forward'. Why not the others: Splendid Isolation was 19th-century British foreign policy; Constructive Engagement was US policy toward apartheid; Absolute Neutrality is Swiss policy.
Practise more Foreign Policy, Pan-Africanism and Regional Treaties.
Free questions with an explanation for every one, and full timed General Knowledge (Ghana) mock tests.
More Foreign Policy, Pan-Africanism and Regional Treaties questions
- In which year did Ghana host the historic first Conference of Independent African States in Accra?
- Which historic pan-African non-governmental congress was held in Accra in December 1958, bringing liberation leaders together?
- Which Trinidadian pan-African scholar served as Kwame Nkrumah's personal Advisor on African Affairs in Accra until his death in 1959?
- Which celebrated African-American scholar and NAACP co-founder moved to Ghana, became a citizen, and died in Accra in 1963?
- In which Ethiopian city did Ghana co-found the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in May 1963?
- What conference building in Accra was constructed in 1965 specifically to host the OAU Summit of African Heads of State?