Cosmopolitan nationalism in Ghana: founding fathers, nation-building, and transnational thinkers

Nineteenth and twentieth-century West African writer-intellectuals harnessed their Atlantic networks to explore ideas of race, regeneration, and nation-building. Yet, the ultimately cosmopolitan nature of these political and intellectual pursuits has been overlooked by dominant narratives of anti-co...

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1. Verfasser: Owusu, Mary A. S. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:Nineteenth and twentieth-century West African writer-intellectuals harnessed their Atlantic networks to explore ideas of race, regeneration, and nation-building. Yet, the ultimately cosmopolitan nature of these political and intellectual pursuits has been overlooked by dominant narratives of anti-colonial history. In contrast, Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Ghana uses cosmopolitanism as a primary theoretical tool, interrogating the anti-colonial writings that prop up Ghana's nationalist history under a new light. Mary A. Seiwaa Owusu highlights the limitations of accepted labels of nationalist scholarship and confirms that these writer-intellectuals instead engaged with ideas around the globe. This study offers a more complex account of the nation-building project, arguing for the pivotal role of other groups and factors in addition to Kwame Nkrumah's leadership. In turn, it proposes a historical account which assumes a cosmopolitan setting, highlights the centrality of debate, and opens a vista for richer understandings of Ghanaians' longstanding questions about thriving in the world
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Ghana's Grand Narrative -- Rethinking Proto Nationalism Blyden and Horton (1863-1912) -- Rethinking Cultural Nationalism as Debates on Synthesis (1887-1920) -- Misreading Conservative Nationalism (1920-1945) -- Rethinking the Monopoly of Radical Nationalism (1946-1958)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 294 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009524704
DOI:10.1017/9781009524704

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