Ghana's Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah's Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism
Ghana’s Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah’s Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism examines Ghana’s foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on the enduring legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. This book also analyzes the complexity of post-independence foreign policy decision making and the influence of the post-colonial narrative during the Cold War. In this study, Charles Asante argues that the significance and continuity of Nkrumah’s legacy is often attributed to his pan-Africanist leadership on the African continent, fervently articulating an independent African foreign policy. Leaders like Nkrumah, considered themselves as the redeemers of Africa’s political and economic vulnerability from its colonial experiences. Asante finds that, in contrast to the positive experience associated with his independence movement for Ghana, Nkrumah could not build the same kind of vision, engagement, and networks among other African nationalist leaders necessary for successful promotion of a Pan-African region. Despite Nkrumah’s own foreign policy failures in the Congo, the United States of Africa project, and his sudden overthrow in 1966, Nkrumah’s Pan-African vision is still promoted as an important foreign policy objective by Ghana’s politicians, public servants, military, and academics.

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Ghana's Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah's Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism
Ghana’s Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah’s Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism examines Ghana’s foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on the enduring legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. This book also analyzes the complexity of post-independence foreign policy decision making and the influence of the post-colonial narrative during the Cold War. In this study, Charles Asante argues that the significance and continuity of Nkrumah’s legacy is often attributed to his pan-Africanist leadership on the African continent, fervently articulating an independent African foreign policy. Leaders like Nkrumah, considered themselves as the redeemers of Africa’s political and economic vulnerability from its colonial experiences. Asante finds that, in contrast to the positive experience associated with his independence movement for Ghana, Nkrumah could not build the same kind of vision, engagement, and networks among other African nationalist leaders necessary for successful promotion of a Pan-African region. Despite Nkrumah’s own foreign policy failures in the Congo, the United States of Africa project, and his sudden overthrow in 1966, Nkrumah’s Pan-African vision is still promoted as an important foreign policy objective by Ghana’s politicians, public servants, military, and academics.

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Ghana's Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah's Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism

Ghana's Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah's Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism

by Charles Asante
Ghana's Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah's Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism

Ghana's Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah's Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism

by Charles Asante

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Ghana’s Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah’s Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism examines Ghana’s foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on the enduring legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. This book also analyzes the complexity of post-independence foreign policy decision making and the influence of the post-colonial narrative during the Cold War. In this study, Charles Asante argues that the significance and continuity of Nkrumah’s legacy is often attributed to his pan-Africanist leadership on the African continent, fervently articulating an independent African foreign policy. Leaders like Nkrumah, considered themselves as the redeemers of Africa’s political and economic vulnerability from its colonial experiences. Asante finds that, in contrast to the positive experience associated with his independence movement for Ghana, Nkrumah could not build the same kind of vision, engagement, and networks among other African nationalist leaders necessary for successful promotion of a Pan-African region. Despite Nkrumah’s own foreign policy failures in the Congo, the United States of Africa project, and his sudden overthrow in 1966, Nkrumah’s Pan-African vision is still promoted as an important foreign policy objective by Ghana’s politicians, public servants, military, and academics.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781666953510
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/19/2024
Pages: 236
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Charles Asante is lecturer at the Center for African and International Studies at the University of Cape Coast.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

Introduction

Chapter One: An Introduction to Norm Entrepreneurship

Chapter Two: The Intellectual Roots of Pan-Africanism

Chapter Three: The Emergence of Kwame Nkrumah as a Norm Entrepreneur

Chapter Four: The Ghanaian State: Post-Independence Period, 1950s―1960s

Chapter Five: Kwame Nkrumah’s Pan-African Foreign Policy: The Congo Intervention

Chapter Six: Kwame Nkrumah and the Creation of the Organization of African Unity: An Embodiment of Pan-Africanism

Chapter Seven: Kwame Nkrumah’s Demise and Foreign Policy Legacy

Conclusion

Appendix: Primary Research (Interviews)

Bibliography

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