Ghana's Foreign Policy
Kwame Nkrumah's Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism
Seiten
2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5351-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5351-0 (ISBN)
This book examines Ghana’s foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on the enduring legacy of Kwame Nkrumah, providing new insight into Nkrumah’s attempts to reinforce, articulate, and communicate his vision of Pan-Africanism.
Ghana’s Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah’s Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism examines Ghana’s foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on the enduring legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. This book also analyzes the complexity of post-independence foreign policy decision making and the influence of the post-colonial narrative during the Cold War. In this study, Charles Asante argues that the significance and continuity of Nkrumah’s legacy is often attributed to his pan-Africanist leadership on the African continent, fervently articulating an independent African foreign policy. Leaders like Nkrumah, considered themselves as the redeemers of Africa’s political and economic vulnerability from its colonial experiences. Asante finds that, in contrast to the positive experience associated with his independence movement for Ghana, Nkrumah could not build the same kind of vision, engagement, and networks among other African nationalist leaders necessary for successful promotion of a Pan-African region. Despite Nkrumah’s own foreign policy failures in the Congo, the United States of Africa project, and his sudden overthrow in 1966, Nkrumah’s Pan-African vision is still promoted as an important foreign policy objective by Ghana’s politicians, public servants, military, and academics.
Ghana’s Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah’s Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism examines Ghana’s foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on the enduring legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. This book also analyzes the complexity of post-independence foreign policy decision making and the influence of the post-colonial narrative during the Cold War. In this study, Charles Asante argues that the significance and continuity of Nkrumah’s legacy is often attributed to his pan-Africanist leadership on the African continent, fervently articulating an independent African foreign policy. Leaders like Nkrumah, considered themselves as the redeemers of Africa’s political and economic vulnerability from its colonial experiences. Asante finds that, in contrast to the positive experience associated with his independence movement for Ghana, Nkrumah could not build the same kind of vision, engagement, and networks among other African nationalist leaders necessary for successful promotion of a Pan-African region. Despite Nkrumah’s own foreign policy failures in the Congo, the United States of Africa project, and his sudden overthrow in 1966, Nkrumah’s Pan-African vision is still promoted as an important foreign policy objective by Ghana’s politicians, public servants, military, and academics.
Charles Asante is lecturer at the Center for African and International Studies at the University of Cape Coast.
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter One: An Introduction to Norm Entrepreneurship
Chapter Two: The Intellectual Roots of Pan-Africanism
Chapter Three: The Emergence of Kwame Nkrumah as a Norm Entrepreneur
Chapter Four: The Ghanaian State: Post-Independence Period, 1950s―1960s
Chapter Five: Kwame Nkrumah’s Pan-African Foreign Policy: The Congo Intervention
Chapter Six: Kwame Nkrumah and the Creation of the Organization of African Unity: An Embodiment of Pan-Africanism
Chapter Seven: Kwame Nkrumah’s Demise and Foreign Policy Legacy
Conclusion
Appendix: Primary Research (Interviews)
Bibliography
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 535 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-5351-2 / 1666953512 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-5351-0 / 9781666953510 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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