Nkrumah The Chiefs

Author : Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Wisdom J. Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu,Bruce J. Berman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004130136

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Critical Perspectives in Politics and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana by Wisdom J. Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu,Bruce J. Berman Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of contemporary Ghanaian politics and economy and their relationship to culture. It combines rich, recent, empirical material with sophisticated theoretical analyses, bringing fresh and unique interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on the issues examined.

Author : Paul André Ladouceur
Publisher : London, Longman
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015020169598

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Chiefs and Politicians by Paul André Ladouceur Pdf

Author : A. Biney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Ato Kwamena Onoma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521765718

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The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa by Ato Kwamena Onoma Pdf

This book provides unique insight into the relationship of institutions that govern land rights to local and national politics in African countries.

Author : Hilda Kuper
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520313941

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Urbanization and Migration in West Africa by Hilda Kuper Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Author : Edmund Abaka,Kwame Osei Kwarteng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351184052

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The Asante World by Edmund Abaka,Kwame Osei Kwarteng Pdf

The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." By employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several dimensions of Asante history including state formation, Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture, exemplified in kola nut production, the kente/adinkra cloth types and their associated symbols, proverbs, and drum language. The Asante World explores the Asante origins of Jamaican maroons, Asante secular government, contemporary politics of progress, governance through the institution of Ahemaa or Queenmothers, epidemiology and disease, and education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Featuring innovative and insightful contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history.

Author : A. Rahman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230603486

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The Regime Change of Kwame Nkrumah by A. Rahman Pdf

This book tells the story of Kwame Nkrumah, the first post-colonial president of an independent African country. The book utilizes previously unpublished and recently declassified IS State Department documents to give an analysis and a chronology of Nkrumah's fall. The book is written for a general audience and for academic historians and students.

Author : Ebenezer Obiri Addo
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 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

Author : Beth Rabinowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108420464

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Coups, Rivals, and the Modern State by Beth Rabinowitz Pdf

Using extensive research, this book argues that successful African leaders consolidate their rule by developing strategic rural coalitions.

Author : Kwesi Yankah
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920033811

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Beyond the Political Spider by Kwesi Yankah Pdf

Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities by Kwesi Yankah is the first title in the newly established African Humanities Association (AHA) publication series. By integrating his own biography into a critique of the global politics of knowledge production, Yankah, through a collection of essays, interrogates critical issues confronting the Humanities that spawn intellectual hegemonies and muffle African voices. Using the example of Ghana, he brings under scrutiny, amongst others, endemic issues of academic freedom, gender inequities, the unequal global academic order, and linguistic imperialism in language policies in governance. In the face of these challenges, the author deftly navigates the complex terrain of indigenous knowledge and language in the context of democratic politics, demonstrating that agency can be liberatory when emphasising indigenous knowledge, especially expressed through the idiom of local languages and symbols, including Ananse, the protean spider, folk hero in Ghana and most parts of the pan-African world.

Author : Immanuel Ness,Zak Cope
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1423 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230392786

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism by Immanuel Ness,Zak Cope Pdf

The Palgrave Encyclopedia Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism objectively presents the prominent themes, epochal events, theoretical explanations, and historical accounts of imperialism from 1776 to the present. It is the most historically and academically comprehensive examination of the subject to date.

Author : Jeffrey Ahlman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780755601578

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Ghana by Jeffrey Ahlman Pdf

Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and intellectual hub for British West Africa. Half a century later, when Ghana became the first sub-Saharan state to emerge from European colonial rule, it became a key site for a burgeoning, transnational, African anticolonial politics that drew activists, freedom fighters, and intellectuals from around the world. As the twentieth century came to a close, Ghana also became an international symbol of the putative successes of post-Cold-War African liberalization and democratization projects. Here Jeffrey Ahlman narrates this rich political history stretching from the beginnings of the very idea of the "Gold Coast" to the country's 1992 democratization, which paved the way for the Fourth Republic. At the same time, he offers a rich social history stretching that examines the sometimes overlapping, sometimes divergent nature of what it means to be Ghanaian through discussions of marriage, ethnicity, and migration; of cocoa as a cultural system; of the multiple meanings of chieftaincy; and of other contemporary markers of identity. Throughout it all, Ahlman distills decades of work by other scholars while also drawing on a wide array of archival, oral, journalistic, and governmental sources in order to provide his own fresh insights. For its clear, comprehensive coverage not only of Ghanaian history, but also of the major debates shaping nineteenth- and twentieth-century African politics and society more broadly, Ghana: A Political and Social History is a must-read for students and scholars of African Studies.

Author : Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351793131

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Ghana in Search of Development by Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. When Ghana became independent in 1957, becoming the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to banish colonialism, there was a general optimism that irreversible socio-economic development was about to unfold. But by the end of the 1970s Ghana paradoxically became the first country in Twentieth Century Africa to have experienced socio-economic decline. What failed Ghana? This book seeks to answer this question. By combining sociological, economic, political and institutional perspectives, this book focuses on the interplay between state politics and socio-economic development. It provides a model, which suggests that Ghana’s postcolonial development has suffered mainly as a result of the failure or inability of governing elites to develop consensual politics and a clearly specified long-term development objective that could be widely understood, accepted and have relevance for policy making. This book presents a much-needed self-assessment of the post-colonial development experience which contends that governance, economic management and institution building are basic challenges without which the search for development is likely to falter.

Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253066664

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Independent Africa by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong Pdf

"Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building, economic development, and international relations. Drawing on the political careers of four heads of states: Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Ahmed Sâekou Tourâe of Guinea, Lâeopold Sâedar Senghor, and Julius Kambarage Nyerere of Tanzania, Independent Africa engages four major themes: what does it mean to construct an African nation-state and what should an African nation-state look like; how does one grow a tropical economy emerging from European colonialism; how to explore an indigenous model of economic development, a "third way," in the context of a Cold War that had divided the world into two camps; and how to leverage internal resources and external opportunities to diversify agricultural economics and industrialize. Combining aspects of history, economics, and political science, Independent Africa examines the important connections between the first generation of African leaders, and the shared ideas that informed their endeavors at nation-building and worldmaking"--