Kwame Nkrumah 1909–1972 (eBook)

A Controversial African Visionary

Bea Lundt, Christoph Marx (Herausgeber)

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2016
208 Seiten
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-11575-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Historische Mitteilungen – Beihefte
• Zusatzinfo: 21 schw.-w. Fotos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Afrika • Afrikanische Geschichte • Biographie • Dekolonisation • Geschichte • Ghana • Kwame Nkrumah • Panafrikanismus • Postkoloniale Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 3-515-11575-7 / 3515115757
• ISBN-13: 978-3-515-11575-9 / 9783515115759