Nkrumah’s American education introduced him to the Western philosophical canon

Evidence

The ten years which I spent in the United States of America represents a crucial period in the development of my philosophical conscience. … I was introduced to Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx and other immortals, to whom I should like to refer as the university philosophers. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 257

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: African philosophy sifts Western ideas to reject racism yet adopt useful knowledge — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 920
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: African philosophy sifts Western ideas to reject racism yet adopt useful knowledge — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 920