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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

1950s: The Institute of African Studies (IAS) is proposed and initially formed at the University College of the Gold Coast (now the University of Ghana).
Some faculty, including Peter Shinnie and his committee, support a linguistic and cultural focus for the IAS.
This approach to African Studies is aligned with the British colonial academic models that were imposed prior to Ghana’s independence in 1957.
Other faculty resist this narrow scope, calling instead for an interdisciplinary approach that includes African history, economics, and politics.
Early 1960s: Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah reorganizes the IAS under an interdisciplinary, African-centered vision.
Nkrumah’s reforms are part of a broader post-1945 movement to challenge colonial systems in Africa.

The student wants to place Kwame Nkrumah’s reorganization of the IAS in historical context. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

Nkrumah’s early 1960s reorganization of the IAS was built directly on British academic models that had long supported interdisciplinary African Studies in Ghanaian universities.

Following Ghana’s 1957 independence, Nkrumah reorganized the IAS with a linguistic and cultural focus, as recommended by Peter Shinnie and his committee.

Nkrumah reorganized the IAS in the early 1960s to reflect an interdisciplinary, African-centered vision, aligning with a broader post-1945 movement to challenge colonial systems in Africa.

Nkrumah’s changes to African Studies reflected faculty concerns that the field should move beyond colonial frameworks and include areas like history, politics, and economics.