Nkrumah And The West

Author : Matteo Landricina
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Jeffrey S. Ahlman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Marika Sherwood
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 0745338917

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Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War by Marika Sherwood Pdf

The history of a Pan-Africanist movement based in Britain and its role in the Cold War in Africa.

Author : MARIKA. SHERWOOD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786804751

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KWAME NKRUMAH AND THE DAWN OF THE COLD WAR by MARIKA. SHERWOOD Pdf

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789987160044

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Western Involvement in Nkrumah's Downfall by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

The author shows the role played by Western governments and intelligence agencies in overthrowing Ghana's first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. They worked together to weaken and undermine his government, and they facilitated the military coup which ended his rule. He has used declassified material including interviews with former American ambassadors to Ghana, as well as other sources, to document his study. He contends that the Ghanaian army and police officers who overthrew Nkrumah may not have succeeded, when they did, in ousting Nkrumah had Western powers, especially the United States, not been involved in the plot to oust him. They participated in planning the coup. But he also concedes that it is possible the Ghanaian coup makers would have, on their own, succeeded later in overthrowing Nkrumah. Major Akwasi Afrifa, one of the leaders of the February 1966 coup in which Nkrumah was ousted, planned twice – in 1962 and in 1964 – to overthrow Nkrumah but the plots were discovered by the security forces before they could be carried out. The author acknowledges that Nkrumah had enemies within and faced strong opposition to his rule. But he also contends that there was a concerted effort by Western powers, especially the United States, to overthrow Nkrumah that should not be overlooked when examining his downfall. They worked in collusion with his enemies within. But even if Nkrumah did not have enemies in Ghana, the United States and other Western powers still would have worked on plans to get rid of him because he was considered to be a threat to American and Western interests in Africa. The book includes photos. His forthcoming book, “Ghana after Nkrumah,” complements this work.

Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429710223

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Black Star by Basil Davidson Pdf

This book provides a balanced view about a charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah during an exciting period of history in Ghana. It discusses the failure of Nkrumah's means and abilities to meet the challenge of his aims from the standpoint of Ghana's welfare.

Author : C. L. R. James
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : A. Biney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230118645

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The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah by A. Biney Pdf

Inspired by Gandhi's non-violent campaign of civil disobedience to achieve political ends, Kwame Nkrumah led present-day Ghana to independence. This analysis of his political, social and economic thought centres on his own writings, and re-examines his life and thought by focusing on the political discourse and controversies surrounding him.

Author : A.B. Assensoh,Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666906752

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Kwame Nkrumah's Political Kingdom and Pan-Africanism Reinterpreted, 1909–1972 by A.B. Assensoh,Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh Pdf

Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Kingdom and Pan-Africanism ReInterpreted, 1909-1972 provides an in-depth study of the life of the late Pan-African leader from the former Gold Coast, Kwame Nkrumah. Authors A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh analyze Nkrumah’s life from his birth on the Gold Coast through his studies in the United Kingdom and the United States, his activism and political life, and his exile and death. Throughout, Assensoh and Alex-Assensoh present a twenty-first-century reinterpretation of Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanist views in the context of Black unity as well as Black liberation within the African continent and the United States and Caribbean diaspora.

Author : Kwame Botwe-Asamoah
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ghana
ISBN : 0415948339

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Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-cultural Thought and Policies 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-centred paradigm for the post-independence African revolution. It also argues for the relevance of his theories and politics in today's Africa.

Author : Yuri Smertin
Publisher : International Publishers Co
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0717806553

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Kwame Nkrumah by Yuri Smertin Pdf

An original study of the life and work of Nkrumah which traces the development of his thought and practice. Key passages from Nkrumah's writings and those of contemporaries are drawn on to illuminate Nkrumah's great contributions as well as certain contradictory elements in his outlook. An excellent one-volume source.

Author : John Frederick Vicars Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCAL:$B683634

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Kwame Nkrumah and the Future of Africa by John Frederick Vicars Phillips Pdf

Analysis of the African leader's aspirations, attitudes, and actions.

Author : Marika Sherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015053531060

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Kwame Nkrumah by Marika Sherwood Pdf

Author : June Milne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : David Rooney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015014286879

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Kwame Nkrumah by David Rooney Pdf

Studie over het leven en de idealen van de Ghanese premier (1909-1972) die in 1957 de eerste postkoloniale Afrikaanse leider was