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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796904003321

Autore

Fuller H

Titolo

Building the Ghanaian Nation-State [[electronic resource] ] : Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism / / by H. Fuller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-349-49652-9

1-137-44858-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

African Histories and Modernities, , 2634-5773

Disciplina

966.7051

Soggetti

Africa—Politics and government

Political sociology

Africa—History

Imperialism

Political science

African Politics

Political Sociology

African History

Imperialism and Colonialism

Political Science

Ghana Politics and government 1957-1979

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword: Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah-His Symbolic Nationalism and Nation Building; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Timeline of Important Dates in the Life of Kwame Nkrumah; Ghanaian Premiers, 1951-Present; INTRODUCTION The Symbolism of Ghanaian Nationalism; Chapter 1 Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State; Chapter 2 Philatelic Nationalism; Chapter 3 Economic Nationalism; Chapter 4 Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor; Chapter 6 Monumental Nationalism; Chapter 7 Pan-African Nationalism; Chapter 8 The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah

Chapter 9 The Death and Symbolic "Resurrection" of Kwame



NkrumahChapter 10 From "Redeemer" to Redeemed?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.