Tertiary sources
 

An Afrocentric analysis requires, however, no less than an African-centered global analysis.  For this analysis, a number of tertiary works were helpful.  First among these works were UNESCO's General Histories of Africa Volumes I, II, VII, and VIII.   They address the methodologies used to study African history; ancient African civilizations; Africa during the period of classic colonialism, and Africa since 1935 respectively.  These themes are essential components of Nkrumahist discourse.  They are also necessary items for the theoretical construction of the ideological and intellectual landscape within which Nkrumahism found itself. 

As the General Histories of Africa helped in the construction of an African-centered historiography other works were used to narrow in on the Pan-African agency reflected through the Pan-African Movement (PAM).  Awareness of this movement is crucial to a coherent understanding of the culture articulated in Nkrumahism.  For Nkrumah, the African Personality called for Pan-Africanism, the latter concept being a goal and reflection of the development of the former.  This understanding begins to resolve the vagueness surrounding the term 'Pan-African' but requires a historical context to clarify its role in African cultural development.