Socialist de-colony : Black and Soviet entanglements in Ghana's Cold War /

Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. It precipitated both the dying spiral of colonialism across the African continent and the world's first Black socialist state. Utilising materials from Ghanaian, Russian, English, and Ame...

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Main Author:	Osei-Opare, Nana (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Series:	Global and international history.
Subjects:	Nkrumah, Kwame, > 1909-1972 Socialism > Ghana. Racism against Black people > Ghana. Ghana > History > 1957- Ghana > Relations > Soviet Union. Soviet Union > Relations > Ghana. Racisme à l'égard des personnes noires > Ghāna. Ghāna > Histoire > 1957- Electronic books.
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Summary:	Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. It precipitated both the dying spiral of colonialism across the African continent and the world's first Black socialist state. Utilising materials from Ghanaian, Russian, English, and American archives, Nana Osei-Opare offers a provocative and new reading of this defining moment in world history through the eyes of workers, writers, students, technical-experts, ministers, and diplomats. Osei-Opare shows how race and Ghana-Soviet spaces influenced, enabled, and disrupted Ghana's transformational socialist, Cold War, and decolonization projects to achieve Black freedom. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.
ISBN:	9781009601481 1009601482
DOI:	10.1017/9781009601481