E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, eBook
Fuller Building the Ghanaian Nation-State
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-44858-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism
E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: African Histories and Modernities
ISBN: 978-1-137-44858-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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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Introduction: The Symbolism of Ghanaian Nationalism 1. Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State 2. Philatelic Nationalism 3. Economic Nationalism 4. Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor 5. Exhibiting the Nation 6. Monumental Nationalism 7. Pan-African Nationalism 8. The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah 9. The Death and Resurrection of Kwame Nkrumah Conclusion: From Redeemer to Redeemed