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Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution by C. L. R. James, Leslie James (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution , C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although James wrote it in the immediate post-independence period around 1958, he did not publish it until nearly twenty years later, when he added a series of his own letters, speeches, and articles from the 1960s. Although Nkrumah led the revolution, James emphasizes that it was a popular mass movement fundamentally realized by the actions of everyday Ghanaians. Moreover, James shows that Ghana’s independence movement was an exceptional moment in global revolutionary history: it moved revolutionary activity to the African continent and employed new tactics not seen in previous revolutions. Featuring a new introduction by Leslie James, an unpublished draft of C. L. R. James's introduction to the 1977 edition, and correspondence, this definitive edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution offers a revised understanding of Africa’s shaping of freedom movements and insight into the possibilities for decolonial futures.

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
C. L. R. James, Leslie James (editor)
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9781478007128
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Political Science, Humanities

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