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Building the Ghanaian nation-state : Kwame Nkrumah's symbolic nationalism /

As the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from a European imperial power, Ghana has always occupied a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination. This is due in no small part to the indelible impression left by its first president, the charismatic a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fuller, Harcourt (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Colección:African histories and modernities.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Timeline of important dates in the life of Kwame Nkrumah
  • List of Ghanaian premiers
  • Map of the Ghana
  • The symbolism of Ghanaian nationalism
  • Banal symbols of the new nation-state
  • Philatelic nationalism
  • Economic nationalism
  • Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor
  • Exhibiting the nation
  • Monumental nationalism
  • Pan-African nationalism
  • The downfall of Kwame Nkrumah
  • The death & resurrection of Kwame Nkrumah
  • From redeemer to redeemed.