Building the Ghanaian Nation-State Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism
Description
Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons.
Keywords
Political ScienceWorldAfricanSocial ScienceSociologyHistoryAfricaImperialismInternational RelationsColonialism & Post-ColonialismHistory & Theory
2014Book
Author(s)H. Fuller
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137448569
LanguageEnglish
