Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana

by Jeffrey S. Ahlman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821422936
• ISBN13: 9780821422939
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"