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Building the Ghanaian Nation-State

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137448583

ISBN: 978-1-349-49652-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 2, 2015

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction

Fuller, Harcourt

Pages: 1 –19

[Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, was born in 1909 into the Nzima clan (a small subset of the Akan ethnic group) in Nkroful, a village in the south-western part of the country, which was known as the Gold Coast in colonial times. By the end of his life, he would...
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Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State

Fuller, Harcourt

Pages: 21 –38

[One common feature of all independent nation-states—both Western and non-Western—is that they possess unique national symbols such as a national flag, a national anthem, a coat of arms, and other banal insignia and emblems to distinguish them from other nation-states. For the newly independent...
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Philatelic Nationalism

Fuller, Harcourt

Pages: 39 –53

[African nationalists employed postal iconographies to legitimize their rule, something that they had learnt from the departing European imperial powers. British colonial stamps typically featured the head of the reigning monarch overlooking a scenery that represented the colonial territory and...
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Economic Nationalism

Fuller, Harcourt

Pages: 55 –68

[Between independence and the 1960s when the country became a republic, Ghana’s economic and social fortunes seemed promising, although socioeconomically the cocoa-growing regions of the south fared far better than the northern savanna. The country had a population of 6.2 million in 1957, with a...
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Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor

Fuller, Harcourt

Pages: 69 –80

[It has been the practice of almost every nation and nation-state in modern times to designate a founding father(s), whether living or dead—to plant the seeds of the nation’s birth. And there was no question about who Ghana’s founding father was in an independent Ghana. The first verse of the...
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Exhibiting the Nation

Fuller, Harcourt

Pages: 81 –117

[In their quest to gain complete independence from Europe and to consolidate the new nations, nationalist leaders and adherents of the négritude movement, such as Aimé Césaire (Martiniquan poet, intellectual and politician), Léopold Sédar Senghor (the first president of Senegal), as well as Kwame...
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Monumental Nationalism

Fuller, Harcourt

Pages: 119 –132

[A monument is “the permanent structure, building, erections … made at the place to mark the memory of a historical event, action, place or person …”1 As physical structures, monuments are the embodiment of foundational myths, memories, and philosophies, and serve as official sites for the...
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Pan-African Nationalism

Fuller, Harcourt

Pages: 133 –147

[Known as much for being a Ghanaian nationalist as well as a Pan- African nationalist, Nkrumah utilized the symbols of nationhood at his disposal to articulate and promote African unity. His emphasis that all Africans should unite along cultural, political, economic, and military lines was...
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The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah

Fuller, Harcourt

Pages: 149 –162

[Nkrumah’s stronghold on power, his bitter rivalry with the Asantes and other groups, and the controversial laws that he had passed jailing some of his political rivals made him a target for violence, symbolically and physically. During his presidency as mentioned in chapter 6, an Asante man had...
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The Death and Symbolic “Resurrection” of Kwame Nkrumah

Fuller, Harcourt

Pages: 163 –174

[In exile, Nkrumah had lots of time to reassess his time in power and ponder the factors that led to his downfall. For one, he blamed the resilience of what he saw as “tribalism” in national politics as culpable for the coup that removed him from power. As a nationalist, Nkrumah tried to downplay...

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