This strand is concerned with artists and intellectuals who travelled to the Gold Coast and Ghana in the 1950s, arriving from sites across Africa and its diaspora, and seeking resources for their own liberation struggles. Focusing on three authors – Richard Wright, Kamau Brathwaite and Guy Butler – it investigates their experiences in West Africa and the impact of these experiences on their literary practices. It also uses these authors as entry points for exploring the impact of Ghanaian decolonization on cultural production in the United States, the Caribbean and South Africa.