1st Edition
Ghana's First Republic 1960-1966 The Pursuit of the Political Kingdom
By Trevor Jones
Copyright 1976
374 Pages
by
Routledge
374 Pages
by
Routledge
374 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1976, this book describes one of the most important and colourful episodes in black Africa’s twentieth-century history. Kwame Nkrumah, the dynamic leader who brought Ghana to independence in 1957, abandoned the Westminster model of representative government to which his country once seemed so well suited. He reached out towards the goals of Pan-Africanism and socialism,... Read more
1. The Redeemer 2. The Republic 3. ‘The Party is Supreme’ 4. The Divided House 5. The Political Deformation of Development 6. The Fruits of Office 7. Workers and Farmers 8. The End of the Political Kingdom 9. Nkrumah in Retrospect 1966-1974.
Biography
Trevor Jones was Lecturer in History at the University of Keele.
Review of original edition of Ghana's First Republic:
‘In Ghana’s First Republic Trevor Jones has given us a readable history of Kwame Nkrumah’s rule in Ghana which is both a good synthesis of the large amount of literature on the subject and an original piece of research. ‘ Claire Robertson, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol 11 No. 3.
