As Ghana’s first prime minister and eventual president, Kwame Nkrumah led several ambitious but financially disastrous development projects. Additionally, he focused on making Pan-Africanism a tangible reality. Nkrumah aligned himself with the U.S.S.R. and became increasingly autocratic. He authorized the indefinite “preventive detention” of dissidents, took control of the judiciary, and promoted ideological indoctrination.