Nkrumah And Ghana

Author : C. L. R. James
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478007128

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Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution by C. L. R. James Pdf

In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although James wrote it in the immediate post-independence period around 1958, he did not publish it until nearly twenty years later, when he added a series of his own letters, speeches, and articles from the 1960s. Although Nkrumah led the revolution, James emphasizes that it was a popular mass movement fundamentally realized by the actions of everyday Ghanaians. Moreover, James shows that Ghana’s independence movement was an exceptional moment in global revolutionary history: it moved revolutionary activity to the African continent and employed new tactics not seen in previous revolutions. Featuring a new introduction by Leslie James, an unpublished draft of C. L. R. James's introduction to the 1977 edition, and correspondence, this definitive edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution offers a revised understanding of Africa’s shaping of freedom movements and insight into the possibilities for decolonial futures.

Author : Jeffrey S. Ahlman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780821447390

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Kwame Nkrumah by Jeffrey S. Ahlman Pdf

A new biography of Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, one of the most influential political figures in twentieth-century African history. As the first prime minister and president of the West African state of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah helped shape the global narrative of African decolonization. After leading Ghana to independence in 1957, Nkrumah articulated a political vision that aimed to free the country and the continent—politically, socially, economically, and culturally—from the vestiges of European colonial rule, laying the groundwork for a future in which Africans had a voice as equals on the international stage. Nkrumah spent his childhood in the maturing Gold Coast colonial state. During the interwar and wartime periods he was studying in the United States. He emerged in the postwar era as one of the foremost activists behind the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress and the demand for an immediate end to colonial rule. Jeffrey Ahlman’s biography plots Nkrumah’s life across several intersecting networks: colonial, postcolonial, diasporic, national, Cold War, and pan-African. In these contexts, Ahlman portrays Nkrumah not only as an influential political leader and thinker but also as a charismatic, dynamic, and complicated individual seeking to make sense of a world in transition.

Author : Matteo Landricina
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643909725

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Nkrumah and the West by Matteo Landricina Pdf

The developmental years of Ghana - the first state to become independent from colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa in 1957 - were marked by the United Kingdom's effort to showcase its former colony as a model of successful democracy export for the rest of Black Africa. They called it the "Ghana Experiment". Major Western powers like the United States and West Germany participated in the attempt to keep Ghana aligned with the West. As Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah embarked on a bold anti-imperialistic, pan-African policy, Britain and the United States concerted a common strategy which accelerated Nkrumah's eventual downfall in 1966 and brought Ghana back into the Western sphere of influence.

Author : Kwame Arhin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032813217

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The Life and Work of Kwame Nkrumah by Kwame Arhin Pdf

A book about the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana from 1960 to 1966

Author : Kwame Nkrumah
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Ghana
ISBN : 1635619130

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Ghana by Kwame Nkrumah Pdf

The "African Nehru," Kwame Nkrumah led the 1957 revolution which ushered the state of Ghana from the colonial era to independence. This autobiography recounts the years-long dramatic struggle to gain political freedom for his people.

Author : Kwame Nkrumah
Publisher : International Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002807116

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Ghana by Kwame Nkrumah Pdf

Author : Kwame Botwe-Asamoah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134000180

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Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Politics by Kwame Botwe-Asamoah Pdf

This study critically synthesizes and analyses the relationship between Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural philosophy and policies as an African-centered paradigm for the post-independence African revolution. It also argues for the relevance of his theories and politics in today's Africa.

Author : Kofi Buenor Hadjor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136148828

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Nkrumah and Ghana by Kofi Buenor Hadjor Pdf

First published in 1989. During the days follow­ing Kwame Nkrumah's death in 1972, the idea of writing this book first took form. During the past fifteen years, Africa has gone through a major trauma. The events of these years help throw light on the Nkrumah experiment, and underline its continued relevance for Ghana and for Africa.

Author : H. Fuller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137448583

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Building the Ghanaian Nation-State by H. Fuller Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0821413066

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Nkrumah & the Chiefs by Richard Rathbone Pdf

The end of independent chieftaincy must be one of the most fundamental changes in the long history of Ghana, and one of the central achievements that Kwame Nkrumah and his movement brought about. Nkrumah & the Chiefs examines a radical nationalist government's attempts to destroy chieftaincy in Ghana. Richard Rathbone's pioneering work shows how chiefly resistance forced the government to seek control over rural areas by incorporating and redefining chieftaincy. Based primarily on previously unconsulted archival and other material in Ghana, Nkrumah & the Chiefs is a detailed analysis of this neglected side of Ghana's history.

Author : Kwame Nkrumah
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Ghana
ISBN : 0901787094

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Dark Days in Ghana by Kwame Nkrumah Pdf

Dark Days in Ghana Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah, foremost exponent of African Unity and socialism never saw Ghana in isolation from the rest of Africa or from the world revolutionary struggle.

Author : David Rooney
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789988647810

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Kwame Nkrumah. Vision and Tragedy by David Rooney Pdf

" ""The yearlong celebration of Ghana's Golden Jubilee provides a fitting context for the republication of the book Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy. In the lead-up to the celebration and over the course of the year, the life and times of Kwame Nkrumah will receive unprecedented public attention, official and unofficial. Kwame Nkrumah's very wide name-recognition is, paradoxically, accompanied by sketchy, often oversimplified knowledge about the events and processes of his life and times. For most of those born after independence in 1957, such knowledge does not extend much beyond who Kwame Nkrumah was and vague notions about he won us Independence"""". This book presents new material and new analysis, which helps to clarify aspects of the record, while advancing new perspectives. What comes across clearly throughout the book is the significant contribution of Nkrumah's vision and personality at a critical moment in the history of Africa and the Third World. He, perhaps more than any other, was able to identify, focus and catalyse the major factors and players driving the struggle for political independence in Ghana and liberation in other parts of Africa. In the process, he committed his life and work totally to a wide variety of activities and processes in Ghana, the continent and in the global Non-Aligned Movement."""" - Akilagpa Sawyerr Association of African Universities Accra, Ghana 10 March 2007 """"This is an objective study which should be read by all concerned with the history of post-colonial Africa."""" - Conor Cruise O'Brien Former Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana, Legon. David Rooney is a specialist on Ghana from Cambridge. His research for this book unearthed unpublished material in Ghana, UK, and the United States, where he had access to CIA papers. He has written extensively on the Commonwealth and modern Africa, and is the author of a biography of Sir Charles Noble Arden Clarke."""

Author : David Busumtwi-Sam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ghana
ISBN : UOM:39015051618018

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Landmarks of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah by David Busumtwi-Sam Pdf

Author : June Milne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073450566

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Kwame Nkrumah by June Milne Pdf

This unique selection of personal correspondence at last fills an extraordinary gap in modern African history. A chronologically structured chronicle of the life and letters of Kwame Nkrumah during his years of exile in Guinea Conakry (1966­1971), compiled by June Milne.

Author : Ebenezer Obiri Addo
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0761813187

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Kwame Nkrumah by Ebenezer Obiri Addo Pdf

Comprises a study of Ghana's first post-colonial prime minister and president Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), focusing on his use of religion in the development of national integration and modernization, among other political goals. The author offers a historical account of religion and politics in Ghana, draws on social, political, and anthropological theories to evaluate Nkrumah's leadership from several different angles, and finally assesses Nkrumah's legacy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR