Introduction As stated by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, “We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.” According to the United Nations Refugee […]
Over the years, the foreign policy decisions of weak economies have been sometimes directed to them by their rich and powerful donors or development partners. For instance, Ghana’s socialist policies and her strong ties with the eastern bloc states like Cuba, Romania, Yugoslavia, Libya and the erstwhile Soviet Union in the early 1980s, had to shift swiftly towards the western capitalists for financial assistance to develop her shambolic economy at the time, as the communists could not assist her to rebuild[1].