Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African NationalismOhio University Press, 1998 - 142 pages The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white settler rule. His greatest achievement was to win the right of black peoples in Africa to have a vote and to determine their own destiny. He turned a dream of liberation into a political reality. He was the leader of Ghana who urged Africa to shed the colonial yoke and who inspired black people everywhere to seek their freedom. This revised edition of Birmingham's fine and accessible biography chronicles the public accomplishments of this extraordinary leader, who faced some of the century's most challenging political struggles over colonial transition. African nationalism, and pan-Africanism. It also relates some of the personal trials of a complex individual. As a student in America in the late 1930s, Nkrumah, shy, disorganized, but ambitious and persistent, earned four degrees in ten years. For political training he then went to England. Nkrumah found writing difficult throughout his lifetime, but once back in his African homeland, with its oral heritage, Nkrumah blossomed as a charming conversationalist, a speechmaker, and eventually a visionary and inspiring leader. Nkrumah's crusades were controversial, however, and in the 1960s he gradually lost his heroic stature both among his own people and among his fellow leaders. He lived his last years in exile. This remarkable life story, which touches on many of the issues facing modern Africa, will open a window of understanding for the general leader as well as for graduate and undergraduate classes. In this new edition, Birmingham also examines Nkrumah's exile and provides insight into the image of Nkrumah that has emerged in the light of research recently published. |
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... movement rather than to the " van- guard " to organize subversive secret cells . His true genius lay in inspired oratory and not in Machiavellian plotting . His background of poverty on the margins of the Gold Coast gave him more ...
... movement rather than to the " van- guard " to organize subversive secret cells . His true genius lay in inspired oratory and not in Machiavellian plotting . His background of poverty on the margins of the Gold Coast gave him more ...
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... movement . Though wage - earn- ing was but a small sector of the Gold Coast economy , the old railway town of Sekondi nonetheless had a significant proletarian labor force . This , and the adjacent 1920s ' " new town " built around the ...
... movement . Though wage - earn- ing was but a small sector of the Gold Coast economy , the old railway town of Sekondi nonetheless had a significant proletarian labor force . This , and the adjacent 1920s ' " new town " built around the ...
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... Movement . Their leader , Dr. Kofi Busia , was - like Danquah before him - a university - trained anthropologist and ... movement and denounced the CPP for corruption and for the growth of a Nkrumah " personality cult . " The movement ...
... Movement . Their leader , Dr. Kofi Busia , was - like Danquah before him - a university - trained anthropologist and ... movement and denounced the CPP for corruption and for the growth of a Nkrumah " personality cult . " The movement ...
Table des matières
Government Leader | 36 |
National Statesman | 62 |
African Hero | 93 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Accra administration African unity America Arden-Clarke army arrested Asante became began Britain British Busia campaign capital Charles Arden-Clarke chiefs cocoa cocoa farmers colonial Conakry Congo constitutional Convention People's Party coup coup d'état created Danquah decolonization dominant economic election élite empire Erica Powell ethnic exile expatriates finance foreign France freedom French gained Gaulle Gbedemah Ghana Ghana army Ghanaian Gold Coast Gold Coast Convention governor Guinea hero ideal ideology imperial independence industry influence J. B. Danquah June Milne Kwame Nkrumah later leaders liberation Liberia London loyalty military mines mobilization movement nationalist neocolonial Nigeria Nkrumah's career opposition organization Pan-African parliament People's Party political politicians president prime minister prison radical regime regional role self-government settler South Africa Soviet Union strike struggle student territories tion took trade union United Gold Coast Volta dam Volta River West Africa women workers