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Title
Exilic Pan-Africanism: Refocusing Kwame Nkrumah’s Conakry Years, 1966–1971
Language
English
Description (en)
This article looks at the years spent by Kwame Nkrumah in forced exile after the military coup in Ghana 1966 ousted him from power. Looking at his letters in combination with Nkrumah’s own published writings of the time, the Conakry years turn out to be pivotal moments in the evolution and maturation of Nkrumah’s revolutionary philosophizing. Critical examination and analysis of this phase provide clearer insights into the complexities and ambiguities of Nkrumah’s thinking, and deeper understanding of the blueprints he developed for Africa’s leadership of the global struggles of oppressed humanity. The article is structured according to the three themes which dominated Nkrumah’s Conakry years: First, ideas about how to regain what was lost in Ghana; second, mapping out blueprints and strategies for the leadership role Africa would assume in the global revolution; and third, responses to, and realigning with, the expanding and problematic diaspora contexts of the struggle.
DOI
10.25365/phaidra.136
Author of the digital object
Tunde  Adeleke  (Iowa State University)
Format
application/pdf
Size
594.1 kB
Licence Selected
CC BY 4.0 International
Type of publication
Article
Name of Publication (en)
Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies
Pages or Volume
28
Volume
20
Number
38
From Page
73
To Page
100
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Object type
PDFDocument
Format
application/pdf
Created
13.04.2020 08:45:22
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