Nkrumah and the Ghana revolution
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Nkrumah and the Ghana revolution
（The C.L.R. James archives / Robert A. Hill, series editor）
Duke University Press, 2022
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In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although James wrote it in the immediate post-independence period around 1958, he did not publish it until nearly twenty years later, when he added a series of his own letters, speeches, and articles from the 1960s. Although Nkrumah led the revolution, James emphasizes that it was a popular mass movement fundamentally realized by the actions of everyday Ghanaians. Moreover, James shows that Ghana's independence movement was an exceptional moment in global revolutionary history: it moved revolutionary activity to the African continent and employed new tactics not seen in previous revolutions. Featuring a new introduction by Leslie James, an unpublished draft of C. L. R. James's introduction to the 1977 edition, and correspondence, this definitive edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution offers a revised understanding of Africa's shaping of freedom movements and insight into the possibilities for decolonial futures.
Table of Contents
Editor's Note vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James / Leslie James xi
Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution
Introduction | 1977 Edition 5
Part I
1. The Myth 23
2. The Masses Set the Stage 33
3. The People in 1947 41
4. The Revolution in Theory 50
5. The Men on the Spot 65
6. The People and the Leader 76
7. Positive Action 104
8. The Party under Fire 113
9. The Tip of the Iceberg 124
Part II
1. Government and Party 135
2. 1962: Twenty Years After 149
3. Slippery Descent 152
4. Lenin and the Problem 158
5. " . . . Always out of Africa" 179
Appendix 1 | Correspondence, 1957 189
Notes on Appendix 1 / Leslie James 189
Extract of letter from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee, Addressed to Martin Glaberman 190
Letters from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee 191
Appendix 2 | "Africa: The Threatening Catastrophe-A Necessary Introduction," 1964 199
Note on Appendix 2 / Leslie James 199
Introduction from "Nkrumah Then and Now" 200
Notes 221
Index 229
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