Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Kingdom and Pan-Africanism ReInterpreted, 1909-1972 provides an in-depth study of the life of the late Pan-African leader from the former Gold Coast, Kwame Nkrumah. Authors A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh analyze Nkrumah’s life from his birth on the Gold Coast through his studies in the United Kingdom and the United States, his activism and political life, and his exile and death. Throughout, Assensoh and Alex-Assensoh present a twenty-first-century reinterpretation of Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanist views in the context of Black unity as well as Black liberation within the African continent and the United States and Caribbean diaspora.
A.B. Assensoh is emeritus professor of Indiana University and courtesy emeritus professor at University of Oregon. Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh is professor of political science and vice president of equity and inclusion at University of Oregon.
Chronology (1909-1972)Chapter 1: Birth, Early Education and EmploymentChapter 2: Overseas Student Years: Nkrumah’s American and UK Sojourns, 1935-1947Chapter 3: Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism: A New InterpretationChapter 4: Years of Activism and Post-Colonial Gold Coast, 1947-1960Chapter 5: Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Kingdom, 1960-1966Epilogue: The 1966 Coup, Exile, Death, and Cultural Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah
Indeed, Professors Assensoh and Alex-Assensoh have written a book that creatively combines a fresh intellectual biography of Kwame Nkrumah with the genealogical history of Pan-Africanism, and they have done so in the most concise and comprehensive way. Above all, it is also a timely contribution to African History, Pan-African Studies and Africana Studies in general.