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Nkrumaism and African nationalism : Ghana's Pan-African foreign policy in the age of decolonization

Title
Nkrumaism and African nationalism : Ghana's Pan-African foreign policy in the age of decolonization / Matteo Grilli.
Author
Grilli, Matteo, 1985-
Publication
  • Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xv, 366 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm.
Summary
This book examines Ghana's Pan-African foreign policy during Nkrumah's rule, investigating how Ghanians sought to influence African liberation movements through the Bureau of African Affairs, the Afriacn 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--back cover.
Series Statement
African Histories and Modernities
Uniform Title
African histories and modernities.
Subject
  • Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 > Political and social views
  • Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
  • 1957-1979
  • Decolonization > Ghana
  • Nation-building > Africa
  • National liberation movements > Africa
  • Pan-Africanism
  • Decolonization
  • Diplomatic relations
  • Nation-building
  • National liberation movements
  • Political and social views
  • Politics and government
  • Ghana > Foreign relations
  • Ghana > Politics and government > 1957-1979
  • Africa
  • Ghana
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-354) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. From Manchester to the All-African People's Conference (1945-1958) -- 3. Translating Theory into Practice (1959) -- 4. Ghana's Pan-African Policy in 1960 -- 5. Shifting to the Left (1961-1962) -- 6. Between Diplomacy and Revolution (1963-1966) -- Conclusion: The "Penalty of Failure"? -- Bibliography -- Index.
Call Number
Sc D 19-539
ISBN
  • 3319913247
  • 9783319913247
LCCN
2018946779
OCLC
1030911602
Author
Grilli, Matteo, 1985- author.
Title
Nkrumaism and African nationalism : Ghana's Pan-African foreign policy in the age of decolonization / Matteo Grilli.
Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
African Histories and Modernities
African histories and modernities.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-354) and index.
Chronological Term
1957-1979
Research Call Number
Sc D 19-539
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