 For leaders of post-colonial African nations, it was imperative that their economic policies represented an ideological break with the Imperialist models of development.To achieve this, some newly-independent states pursued African Socialism to build indigenous growth and break free from capitalist development patterns.Through the adoption of African socialism, leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, and Leopold Senghor hoped to establish a model of development based around consciencism, an intellectual and cultural revolution and most importantly, a ‘big push’ in industrialization towards rapid development for the continent.