| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1951/59916 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71457 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| dcterms.abstract | This dissertation is about the changing historical role of Pan-Africanism in Ghanaian politics from the late colonial period to the present. For a variety of reasons, the Republic of Ghana is an ideal site to explore questions about the interplay between Pan-Africanism and globalization. After becoming the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain its independence in 1957, Ghana's First Republic espoused the core values of African socialism and anti-imperialism and anti-colonial solidarity under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. The realization of independence in Ghana and Nkrumah's eagerness to sponsor other nationalist movements shifted the center of Pan-African activity from the African diaspora to the continent itself. Despite Nkrumah's authoritarianism and political demise via military coup in 1966, Pan-Africanism remained an important facet of Ghana's political and economic landscape. This was particularly evident with the end of the Cold War, re-establishment of multi-party democracy and adoption of Africa's most rigorous Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPS) under the auspices of the Breton Woods institutions. This major paradigm shift not only made Ghana a darling of the global donor community, but also created the framework for the nation to become a major site for African-American migration, investment and heritage tourism In my dissertation, I claim the sum of these interactions between the Ghana and the African diaspora constitute a "free-market Pan-Africanism," a distinctive cultural product of the age of globalization in direct contrast to the African socialist political project of the Nkrumah era. In the early Ghanaian state, Pan-Africanism was an anti-capitalist and anti-imperial, continental political ideology. My argument is contemporary Ghana deploys Pan-Africanism as a promarket commodification of culture to serve the greater project of nation building | |
| dcterms.available | 2013-05-22T17:35:48Z | |
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| dcterms.contributor | Vaughan, Olufemi , Gootenberg, Paul | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Cash, Floris | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Lebovics, Herman | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Nganang, Patrice. | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Williams, Justin | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2013-05-22T17:35:48Z | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2015-04-24T14:47:37Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2013-05-22T17:35:48Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2015-04-24T14:47:37Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of History | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 241 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.identifier | Williams_grad.sunysb_0771E_10747 | en_US |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1951/59916 | |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71457 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2011-12-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | De-colonization, Ghana, Globalization, Kwame Nkrumah, Neoliberalism, Pan-Africanism | |
| dcterms.subject | African history--African American studies--Sub Saharan Africa studies | |
| dcterms.title | Pan-Africanism in One Country: African Socialism, Neoliberalism and Globalization in Ghana | |
| dcterms.type | Dissertation | |
