Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah looked to Mao Zedong's expulsion of Western colonists from China as an ideological blueprint for African independence

Past events and how we study and remember them.

Derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, this body of theory explains history through class struggle and material conditions and criticizes capitalism as exploitative. It underpins communist and many socialist movements and remains influential in economics, sociology and political theory.