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Kwame Nkrumah 1909-1972

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208 Seiten
Englisch
Franz Steiner Verlagerschienen am28.10.20161. Auflage
In 1957, Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country in Africa to achieve independence. The key African figure in this process was Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of the new state. Having studied in the USA and in London he was influenced by socialist and pan-African ideals. His ambitious projects in the fields of education and scientific as well as technological development provided an example for other former colonies. But in 1966 he was overthrown by a military coup supported by the USA and died in exile in 1972. Fifty years later, his memory is omnipresent in Ghanaian society and in other African countries. Still, his achievements are a subject of controversy. Was he a hero of the anti-colonial struggle or an authoritarian dictator? This volume presents chapters by researchers from Ghana, Austria, Germany, and the USA. They analyse the visionary politics of Nkrumah, investigate the reasons for the growing protest against his rule and shed new light on the background of the coup. The last part is dedicated to questions of evaluation and memory. Fifty years after his fall from power, new research and distance from the events allow for a more balanced judgment of Nkrumah.mehr

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KlappentextIn 1957, Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country in Africa to achieve independence. The key African figure in this process was Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of the new state. Having studied in the USA and in London he was influenced by socialist and pan-African ideals. His ambitious projects in the fields of education and scientific as well as technological development provided an example for other former colonies. But in 1966 he was overthrown by a military coup supported by the USA and died in exile in 1972. Fifty years later, his memory is omnipresent in Ghanaian society and in other African countries. Still, his achievements are a subject of controversy. Was he a hero of the anti-colonial struggle or an authoritarian dictator? This volume presents chapters by researchers from Ghana, Austria, Germany, and the USA. They analyse the visionary politics of Nkrumah, investigate the reasons for the growing protest against his rule and shed new light on the background of the coup. The last part is dedicated to questions of evaluation and memory. Fifty years after his fall from power, new research and distance from the events allow for a more balanced judgment of Nkrumah.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9783515115759
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatPDF
Format Hinweis1 - PDF Watermark
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Erscheinungsdatum28.10.2016
Auflage1. Auflage
Seiten208 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.3278565
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Genre9200

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1;TABLE OF CONTENTS;6
2;Bea Lundt/Christoph Marx:Introduction;8
3;VISIONS AND POLITICS;18
3.1;Arno Sonderegger:How the Empire Wrote Back: Notes on the Struggle of GeorgePadmore and Kwame Nkrumah;20
3.2;Kofi Darkwah:Nkrumah and his Ideological Institute at Winneba;40
3.3;Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong:Women During the Nkrumah Era;50
4;OPPOSITION AND COUP;66
4.1;Kwame Osei Kwarteng/Mary Owusu:Opposition to Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention PeoplesParty 1951-1960;68
4.2;Nana Yaw B. Sapong:Framing Contentious Politics in the Gold Coast: The NkrumahContingency 1948-1951;90
4.3;Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu:Kwame Nkrumah and the Agricultural Development of Northern Ghana;110
4.4;Jonathan Otto Pohl:Nkrumah, the Cold War, the Third World , and the US Role in the24 February 1966 Coup;120
5;EVALUATION AND MEMORY;136
5.1;Felix Müller:Ghanaian Intellectuals and the Nkrumah Controversy 1970-2007/8;138
5.2;Carola Lentz: A Lasting Memory: The Contested History of the Nkrumah Statue;154
5.3;Harcourt Fuller:Atomic Africa: Modernization, Technological Nationalism, and ScientificStandstill in Kwame Nkrumah s Ghana and Beyond 1957-Present;186
6;ABOUT THE AUTHORS;206mehr