The Red Star State: State-Capitalism, Socialism, and Black Internationalism in Ghana, 1957-1966
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2019

"The Red Star State" charts a new history of global capitalism and socialism in relation to Ghana and Ghana’s first postcolonial leader, Kwame Nkrumah. By tracing how Soviet connections shaped Ghana’s post-colonial economic ideologies, its Pan-African program, and its modalities of citizenship, this dissertation contradicts literature that portrays African leaders as misguided political-economic theorists, ideologically inconsistent, or ignorant Marxist-Leninists. Rather, I argue that Nkrumah an