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Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) turned a dream of liberation into a political reality. He was the leader of Ghana who urged Africa to shed the colonial yoke and who inspired black people everywhere to seek their freedom.Suitable for undergraduate and graduate classes, David Birmingham's wonderfully concise biography addresses the issues pertaining to colonial transition, African nationalism, and pan-Africanism.In this new edition, Birmingham also examines Nkrumah's exile and provides insight into the image of Nkrumah that has emerged in the light of research recently published.
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Acknowledgments
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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
Info autore
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.
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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.
