David Birmingham

Kwame Nkrumah

The Father of African Nationalism

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Produktbeschreibung

The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white settler rule.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 153
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 181mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9780821412428
• ISBN-10: 0821412426
• Artikelnr.: 21875602

Autorenporträt

David Birmingham lived in Switzerland from 1947 to 1954 as a child and returned there in the 1990s as a visiting historian. From 1980 to 2001 he held the chair of Modern History in the University of Kent at Canterbury in England. He is the author of many books, including Portugal and Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Kwame Nkrumah: A Transnational Life
2. Empire and a Colonial Youth
3. Diasporic Connections and Anticolonial Experimentation
4. Between Nation and Pan-Africanism: Part I
5. Between Nation and Pan-Africanism: Part II
6. Exile and an Era of Reinvention
7. Remembering Nkrumah
Notes
Bibliography
Index