Blyden’s Philosophy and Its Impact on the Process of Re-Africanization in West Africa: Case of Ghana up to 1966

Abstract

As an educator, politician and theologian, Blyden remained the only Black Nationalist who made holistic attempts to re-define the African universe. Blyden’s activities brought forth the successful building up of a philosophy that refuted African’s physical and intellectual enslavement. Blydenic philosophy did not only evince through mere conceptualization of African’s weaknesses and deficiencies, but also revealed through the great impact it had on the emergence of nationalism throughout Africa and West Africa in particular. This thesis will try to examine Blyden’s philosophy and its impact on the process of re-Africanization in Ghana. It is an attempt to trace the evolution of nationalism in Ghana and see how Blydenic philosophy gave shape and substance to its emergence up to 1966.