Kwame Nkrumah : vision and tragedy / David Rooney.

By:

Rooney, David

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2007 (2010 printing)Edition: [2nd ed.]Description: 1 online resource (388 pages) : mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789988647810
9988647816

Uniform titles:

Kwame Nkrumah : the political kingdom in the Third World

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kwame Nkrumah.DDC classification:

966.7/05/0924 22

LOC classification:

DT512.3.N57 R66 2007eb

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Map of Ghana in the 1960s; Preface; Introduction; Foreword to 2nd Edition; 1. Early Life; 2. London Interlude; 3. Secretary of The UGCC; 4. BIrth of The CPP; 5. Leader of Government Business; 6. Constitutional Changes; 7. The Economy and the World Stage; 8. Ashanti and the NLM; 9. The 1956 Election -- The Struggle Continues; 10. Independence; 11. Prime Minister 1957-60; 12. The Volta River Project; 13. Lurch to the Left; 14. The Socialist State; 15. Foreign Policy; 16. Denouement; 17. Retrospect; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.

Summary: ""The yearlong celebration of Ghana's Golden Jubilee provides a fitting context for the republication of the book Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy. In the lead-up to the celebration and over the course of the year, the life and times of Kwame Nkrumah will receive unprecedented public attention, official and unofficial. Kwame Nkrumah's very wide name-recognition is, paradoxically, accompanied by sketchy, often oversimplified knowledge about the events and processes of his life and times. For most of those born after independence in 1957, such knowledge does not extend much beyond who Kwame Nkr

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-379) and index.

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""The yearlong celebration of Ghana's Golden Jubilee provides a fitting context for the republication of the book Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy. In the lead-up to the celebration and over the course of the year, the life and times of Kwame Nkrumah will receive unprecedented public attention, official and unofficial. Kwame Nkrumah's very wide name-recognition is, paradoxically, accompanied by sketchy, often oversimplified knowledge about the events and processes of his life and times. For most of those born after independence in 1957, such knowledge does not extend much beyond who Kwame Nkr

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