Kwame Nkrumah, who won independence for Ghana in 1957, was the
first African statesman to achieve world recognition. Nkrumah and
his movement also brought about the end of independent
chieftaincy--one of the most fundamental changes in the history of
Ghana.
Kwame Nkrumah's Convention Peoples' Party was committed not only to
the rapid termination of British colonial rule but also to the
elimination of chiefly power. This book is an account of Kwame
Nkrumah and his government's long struggle to wrest administrative
control of the Ghanaian countryside from the chiefs. Based largely
upon previously unstudied documentation in Ghana, this study charts
the government's frustrated attempts to democratize local
government and the long and bitter campaigns mounted by many
southern chiefs to resist their political marginalization.
Between 1951 and the creation of the First Republic in 1960,
Ghanaian governments sought to discard the chiefly principle in
local government, then to weaken chieftaincy by attrition and
eventually, by altering the legal basis of chieftaincy, to
incorporate and control a considerably altered chieftaincy. The
book demonstrates that chieftaincy was consciously and
systematically reconstructed in the decade of the 1950s with
implications which can still be felt in modern Ghana.
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