Political myth-making, nationalist resistance and populist performance: examining Kwame Nkrumah's construction and promotion of the African dream

"Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana's independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature. He examines Nkrumah's construction of a myth described in the book...

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1. Verfasser: Nartey, Mark (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York, NY Routledge 2023
Schriftenreihe:Routledge research in language and communication
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Zusammenfassung:"Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana's independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature. He examines Nkrumah's construction of a myth described in the book as the Unite or Perish myth (i.e. the idea of a 'United States of Africa' being a prerequisite for the survival of Africa in the post-independence period), exploring the rhetorical resources he deployed, categorizing and analyzing key tropes and metaphors, and setting out the myth's basic components"--
Beschreibung:Based on author's PhD research at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Beschreibung:ix, 188 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9781032109169
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