Building the Ghanaian Nation-State [electronic resource] : Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism /
Fuller, H.author.
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.
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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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
Africa—Politics and government.
Political sociology.
Africa—History.
Imperialism.
Political science.
African Politics.
Political Sociology.
African History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Political Science.