Socialist De-Colony

Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War

AvNana Osei-Opare

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-20
Mått:157 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:614 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Global and International History
Antal sidor:348
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009601436

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Nana Osei-Opare is Assistant Professor of History at Rice University. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow at the Schomburg Center (2023–2024) and an Andrew J. Mellon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (2022–2023). He coedited Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World (Bloomsburg, 2024).

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'In Socialist De-Colony, Nana Osei-Opare centers race in the history of Ghana-Soviet economic and diplomatic relations. In doing so, he challenges other scholars to expand our archives and extend our horizons to do the same.' David C. Engerman, Yale University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part I. Ghana-Soviet Entanglements: 1. 'Highlife solidarity': white supremacy and black postcolonial statecraft; 2. Ghost projects: contested cold war scientific-technical liberation zones; 3. Racial citizenship moments: social diplomacy and the cold war; Part II. Socialist Dreams: 4. Black marxists and the character of an African leninist economy; 5. Socialism reconsidered: the domestication and worldmaking of socialism; 6. Utopias, dystopias, labor, and socialist 'contradictions'; Conclusion: 'forward ever, backward never'; Bibliography; Index.

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