Mahama lauds Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s pioneering role towards NAM formation

The President said Ghana, therefore, in 1961 came to Belgrade with a tradition of engagement already shaped by the Bandung Conference, a tradition that connected our struggle for independence with the wider determination of newly emerging nations to secure an independent voice in world affairs.

By Iddi Yire, GNA Accra, Sept 01, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama has lauded the pioneering role of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah towards the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to steer an independent path during the cold war era.

He said alongside President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, and President Sukarno of Indonesia, they came together at a time when the world was sharply divided by the Cold War rivalry and newly independent nations faced the danger of exchanging colonial subordination for dependence on competing power blocs.