Building the Ghanaian Nation-State
Title | Building the Ghanaian Nation-State PDF eBook |
Author | H. Fuller |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2014-12-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 113744858X |
Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons.
Building the Ghanaian Nation-State
Title | Building the Ghanaian Nation-State PDF eBook |
Author | H. Fuller |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2014-12-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 113744858X |
Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons.
Culture, Nationalism and Nation Building
Title | Culture, Nationalism and Nation Building PDF eBook |
Author | Maxwell Owusu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 45 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Ghana |
ISBN | 9780639817620 |
The History of Ghana
Title | The History of Ghana PDF eBook |
Author | Roger S. Gocking |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2005-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0313061300 |
Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. After World War II an increasingly more effective nationalist movement challenged British rule, and in 1957 Ghana became independent. Independence brought its own challenges the most important of which was the inability to maintain political stability. Within the space of 24 years there were four military coups and the collapse of three republics. Ghana's Fourth Republic, established in 1993, has dealt with the legacy of instability inherited from the past as it moves towards a more stable future. A timeline, photographs, maps, and an appendix of biographies of notable figures in the history of Ghana are included. Students and adults alike will find this book to be highly effective in describing the often turbulent and tumultuous history of this country.
Nkrumaism and African Nationalism
Title | Nkrumaism and African Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Matteo Grilli |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3319913255 |
This book examines Ghana’s Pan-African foreign policy during Nkrumah’s rule, investigating how Ghanaians sought to influence the ideologies of African liberation movements through the Bureau of African Affairs, the African Affairs Centre and the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute. In a world of competing ideologies, when African nationalism was taking shape through trial and error, Nkrumah offered Nkrumaism as a truly African answer to colonialism, neo-colonialism and the rapacity of the Cold War powers. Although virtually no liberation movement followed the precepts of Nkrumaism to the letter, many adapted the principles and organizational methods learnt in Ghana to their own struggles. Drawing upon a significant set of primary sources and on oral testimonies from Ghanaian civil servants, politicians and diplomats as well as African freedom fighters, this book offers new angles for understanding the history of the Cold War, national liberation and nation-building in Africa.
The Anticolonial Front
Title | The Anticolonial Front PDF eBook |
Author | John Munro |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2017-09-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316990648 |
This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments.
Living with Nkrumahism
Title | Living with Nkrumahism PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey S. Ahlman |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2017-10-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0821446150 |
In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party, drew the world’s attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa’s postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key makers of contemporary Africa. In Living with Nkrumahism, Jeffrey S. Ahlman reexamines the infrastructure that organized and consolidated Nkrumah’s philosophy into a political program. Ahlman draws on newly available source material to portray an organizational and cultural history of Nkrumahism. Taking us inside bureaucracies, offices, salary structures, and working routines, he painstakingly reconstructs the political and social milieu of the time and portrays a range of Ghanaians’ relationships to their country’s unique position in the decolonization process. Through fine attunement to the nuances of statecraft, he demonstrates how political and philosophical ideas shape lived experience. Living with Nkrumahism stands at the crossroads of the rapidly growing fields of African decolonization, postcolonial history, and Cold War studies. It provides a much-needed scholarly model through which to reflect on the changing nature of citizenship and political and social participation in Africa and the broader postcolonial world.