Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah's Symbolic Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9781349496525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 262 str.

Harcourt Fuller; H. Fuller

Opis

Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Symbolism of Ghanaian Nationalism 1. Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State 2. Philatelic Nationalism 3. Economic Nationalism 4. Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor 5. Exhibiting the Nation 6. Monumental Nationalism 7. Pan-African Nationalism 8. The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah 9. The Death and Resurrection of Kwame Nkrumah Conclusion: From Redeemer to Redeemed

O autorze

Harcourt Fuller is an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, USA.