Ghana and the Non-Aligned Movement

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President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah with President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito arriving at the 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961 in Belgrade (Terazije with Palace Albanija in the background)

SFR Yugoslavia, India, Indonesia, and Egypt, was one of the five countries that initiated the establishment of the movement.[1]

The first

liberation movements and African unity.[2] In this respect, some scholars compared the Ghanaian approach towards the Non-Alignement with the Monroe Doctrine stressing how Ghanaian leadership aimed to create African Monroe Doctrine that would protect the continent from external powers.[3]

The

Brazzaville Group, with only countries from the first group attending the Belgrade conference.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Non-Aligned Movement returned to its birthplace". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Serbia). 10 October 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
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  3. ^ a b c d Gerits, Frank (2015). "'When the Bull Elephants Fight': Kwame Nkrumah, Non-Alignment, and Pan-Africanism as an Interventionist Ideology in the Global Cold War (1957–66)". The International History Review. 37 (5): 951–969.
  4. ^ Ancic, Ivana (17 August 2017). "Belgrade, The 1961 Non-Aligned Conference". Global South Studies. University of Virginia.