Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
Introduction -- The African background -- The colonial imprint -- Colonial pattern of economics -- Society under colonialism -- The intellectual vanguard -- Freedom first -- Achieving our sovereignty -- Problems of government -- Bringing unity in Ghana -- Our Ghanaian constitution -- The administrative instrument -- Reconstruction and development -- Towards economic independence -- Building socialism in Ghana -- Towards African unity -- Some attempts at unification -- Economic and political integration: Africa's need -- Neo-colonialism in Africa -- Africa in world affairs -- Examples of major unions of states -- Continental government for Africa.