Ghana's First Republic 1960-1966

Name: Ghana's First Republic 1960-1966
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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The Pursuit of the Political Kingdom

By: Trevor Jones

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Hardcover | 20 December 2023

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370 Pages

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19.8 x 12.9 x 2.54

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Originally published in 1976, this book describes one of the most important and colourful episodes in black Africa's twentieth-century history. Kwame Nkrumah, the dynamic leader who brought Ghana to independence in 1957, abandoned the Westminster model of representative government to which his country once seemed so well suited. He reached out towards the goals of Pan-Africanism and socialism, emphasizing the primacy of political action to regenerate his people and their continent. But his vision of the 'political kingdom' led quickly to the destruction of his Republic and his hopes. Using the (then) latest evidence to examine political life, parliament, civil service, farmers, workers and army in Ghana's first Republic, the author argues that Nkrumah's experiment failed because his rule was strong enough to distort traditional values but was unable to transform them. The result was a bizarre and paralysing mixture of despotism and anarchy which defied political analysis in conventional terms.

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Review of original edition of Ghana's First Republic:

'In Ghana's First Republic Trevor Jones has given us a readable history of Kwame Nkrumah's rule in Ghana which is both a good synthesis of the large amount of literature on the subject and an original piece of research. ' Claire Robertson, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol 11 No. 3.

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