Kwame Nkrumah on African Unity page 1112

Nkrumah's call for African unity reflects tensions between decolonization and the cold war, because it is a call for a nonviolent unification of the African continent. Nkrumah has undoubtedly seen the violence of the decolonization of many colonies and the impending destruction that could occur from the cold war tensions. Because of this, Nkrumah calls for a peaceful joining of the African states that will show the world that "greatness is not to be measured in stock piles of atom bombs." Nkrumah believes that if African states can peaceably unite and rise up as a respectable nation, other countries will see the effectiveness of nonviolence and will lay down their violent tendencies. He thinks Africa will be a greater nation than others because it will have risen up not through "fear, envy, and suspicion" but through "hope", "trust", and "friendship". It will not just show off its wealth and strength through nuclear arms races, but will rather have indestructible greatness because of its goodwill toward all mankind.