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Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism

David Birmingham

Paperback | Pages: 153 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 53 Users | 5 Reviews

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Title	:	Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism
Author	:	David Birmingham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 153 pages
Published	:	December 15th 1998 by Ohio University Press
Categories	:	Cultural. Africa. History. Biography. Nonfiction. Western Africa. Ghana

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The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white settler rule. His greatest achievement was to win the right of black peoples in Africa to have a vote and to determine their own destiny.

He turned a dream of liberation into a political reality. He was the leader of Ghana who urged Africa to shed the colonial yoke and who inspired black people everywhere to seek their freedom.

This revised edition of Birmingham's fine and accessible biography chronicles the public accomplishments of this extraordinary leader, who faced some of the century's most challenging political struggles over colonial transition. African nationalism, and pan-Africanism. It also relates some of the personal trials of a complex individual.

As a student in America in the late 1930s, Nkrumah, shy, disorganized, but ambitious and persistent, earned four degrees in ten years. For political training he then went to England. Nkrumah found writing difficult throughout his lifetime, but once back in his African homeland, with its oral heritage, Nkrumah blossomed as a charming conversationalist, a speechmaker, and eventually a visionary and inspiring leader.

Nkrumah's crusades were controversial, however, and in the 1960s he gradually lost his heroic stature both among his own people and among his fellow leaders. He lived his last years in exile.

This remarkable life story, which touches on many of the issues facing modern Africa, will open a window of understanding for the general leader as well as for graduate and undergraduate classes.

In this new edition, Birmingham also examines Nkrumah's exile and provides insight into the image of Nkrumah that has emerged in the light of research recently published.

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Original Title:	Kwame Nkrumah: Father Of African Nationalism
ISBN:	0821412426 (ISBN13: 9780821412428)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Kwame Nkrumah
Setting:	Ghana

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David Birmingham brings African history in to clear focus. His talent for making the complex politics of the 20th century very easy to understand must be based on his in depth knowledge of the subject. I want to read more, more, more by this talented man on the subject of Africa.



When you live a certain reality or at least some version of it, you tend to be complacent and this is why it has taken me so long to read anything on Ghana's first president. If this book has done one thing, it has raised so many questions and created a need for me to do some deeper reading into Kwame Nkrumah's life and works.

Very informative and interesting book. Great insight into Ghana and its first president, Kwame Nkrumah.

Great Book. I think Birmingham should have gone into the unfair practices of the World Bank & Western influences in Ghana (Volta Project).When you live a certain reality or at least some version of it, you tend to be complacent and this is why it has taken me so long to read anything on Ghana's first president. If this book has done one thing, it has raised so many questions and created a need for me to do some deeper reading into Kwame Nkrumah's life and works.

Mostly sympathetic, short and concise account of Africa's first independent leader and pan-africanist martyr. Addresses the contradictions between industrialization within a country with an agricultural majority. Briefly addresses the neo-colonial exploitation within massive state projects as the volta dam as well as nationalizing parts of the mining industry. David Birmingham being who he is, of course cannot escape the often paternalizing characterization of Nkrumah as "naive and eager to