Building the Ghanaian Nation-State : Kwame Nkrumah's Symbolic Nationalism / by H. Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, H., Author.

Series:

African Histories and Modernities, 2634-5781

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Politics and government.

Africa.

Political sociology.

Africa--History.

Imperialism.

Political science.

African Politics.

Political Sociology.

African History.

Imperialism and Colonialism.

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

African Politics.

Political Sociology.

African History.

Imperialism and Colonialism.

Political Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349496525

1349496529

9781137448583

113744858X