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Kwame Nkrumah - The Father of African Nationalism (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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Kwame Nkrumah - The Father of African Nationalism (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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Loot Price R462
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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. His
greatest achievement was to win the right of black peoples in
Africa to have a vote and to determine their own destiny. He 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. This
revised edition of Birmingham's fine and accessible biography
chronicles the public accomplishments of this extraordinary leader,
who faced some of the century's most challenging political
struggles over colonial transition. African nationalism, and
pan-Africanism. It also relates some of the personal trials of a
complex individual. As a student in America in the late 1930s,
Nkrumah, shy, disorganized, but ambitious and persistent, earned
four degrees in ten years. For political training he then went to
England. Nkrumah found writing difficult throughout his lifetime,
but once back in his African homeland, with its oral heritage,
Nkrumah blossomed as a charming conversationalist, a speechmaker,
and eventually a visionary and inspiring leader. Nkrumah's crusades
were controversial, however, and in the 1960s he gradually lost his
heroic stature both among his own people and among his fellow
leaders. He lived his last years in exile. This remarkable life
story, which touches on many of the issues facing modern Africa,
will open a window of understanding for the general leader as well
as for graduate and undergraduate classes. 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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