Living with Nkrumahism. Jeffrey S. Ahlman

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      Living with Nkrumahism

      NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES

      SERIES EDITORS: JEAN ALLMAN, ALLEN ISAACMAN, AND DEREK R. PETERSON

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      Jeffrey S. Ahlman, Living with Nkrumahism

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      Living with Nkrumahism

       Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana

      Jeffrey S. Ahlman

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

      ATHENS, OHIO

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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      Cover photo of Kwame Nkrumah by Mark Kauffman/LIFE picture collection/Getty Images.

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      The following material has been previously published in a different form. Ahlman, Jeffrey S. “Managing the Pan-African Workplace: Discipline, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of the Ghanaian Bureau of African Affairs.” Ghana Studies 15/16 (2012/2013): 337–371. © 2013 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Reproduced courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Press.

      Ahlman, Jeffrey S. “A New Type of Citizen: Youth, Gender, and Generation in the Ghanaian Builders Brigade.” Journal of African History 53, no. 1 (2012): 87–105. © 2012 by Cambridge University Press. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Ahlman, Jeffrey S., 1982- author.

      Title: Living with Nkrumahism : nation, state, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana / Jeffrey S. Ahlman.

      Other titles: New African histories series.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: New African histories

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017036212| ISBN 9780821422922 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422939 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446157 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972--Influence. | Ghana--Politics and government--1957-1979. | Ghana--Politics and government--1979-2001. | Decolonization--Ghana. | Pan-Africanism.

      Classification: LCC DT510.62 A35 2017 | DDC 966.705--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036212

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      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Abbreviations

       Introduction. Decolonization and the Pan-African Nation

       Chapter 1. The World of Kwame Nkrumah: Pan-Africanism, Empire, and the Gold Coast in Global Perspective

       Chapter 2. From the Gold Coast to Ghana: Modernization and the Politics of Pan-African Nation-Building

       Chapter


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