An Overview of Kwame Nkrumah’s Cultural Policies on Ghana’s Visual Culture.

This paper attempts to inquire about Kwame Nkrumah’s cultural policies and philosophies on the visual culture of present day Ghana. The study hinged on the Art Historical research procedures within the qualitative research paradigm and gathered data through interviews, field notes, observation and discussions. The study examined Kwame Nkrumah’s cultural policies and philosophies based on his policy actions and pronouncements and their influence on the visual culture as well as their relevance to the policies. The study revealed that, Nkrumah did not make a distinction between politics, culture and economics. He had a dialectic approach to all his policies because he acknowledged the interconnected nature of the social life of the Ghanaian. Based on this, he propagated that Ghanaians should recognise their cultural heritage and take pride in projecting it; that Ghanaians needed to create their nation state based on their culture heritage and that Ghanaians should recognise their cultural heritage as assets for national development.

Keywords: visual culture, Kwame Nkrumah’s cultural policies, pronouncements.