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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fuller, Harcourt (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:African histories and modernities.
Subjects:
Nkrumah, Kwame, > 1909-1972 > Influence.
Nkrumah, Kwame, > 1909-1972
1957-1979
Nationalism > Ghana.
Symbolism in politics > Ghana.
Nationalisme > Ghāna.
Symbolisme en politique > Ghāna.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Nationalism
Politics and government
Symbolism in politics
Ghana > Politics and government > 1957-1979.
Ghāna > Politique et gouvernement > 1957-1979.
Ghana
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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