Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism

Fuller, H.

Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-12-10

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349496525

DOI: 10.1057/9781137448583

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 262.0