C. L. R. James (1901–1989), a Trinidadian historian, political activist, and writer, is the author of Beyond a Boundary, World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International, and other books, all also published by Duke University Press.

• Editor's Note  viiAcknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James / Leslie James  xiNkrumah and the Ghana RevolutionIntroduction 1977 Edition  5Part I1. The Myth  232. The Masses Set the Stage  333. The People in 1947  414. The Revolution in Theory  505. The Men on the Spot  656. The People and the Leader  767. Positive Action  1048. The Party under Fire  1139. The Tip of the Iceberg  124Part II1. Government and Party  1352. 1962: Twenty Years After  1493. Slippery Descent  1524. Lenin and the Problem  1585. “ . . . Always out of Africa”  179Appendix 1 Correspondence, 1957  189Notes on Appendix 1 / Leslie James  189Extract of letter from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee, Addressed to Martin Glaberman  190Letters from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee  191Appendix 2 “Africa: The Threatening Catastrophe-A Necessary Introduction,” 1964  199Note on Appendix 2 / Leslie James  199Introduction from “Nkrumah Then and Now”  200Notes  221Index  229

“This little-known text holds a well-kept secret: Ghana was far more important than Haiti in transforming C. L. R. James’s theory of revolution. Leslie James’s illuminating introduction situates the book within a broader radical Pan-African context. Assembled from over a decade of critical observation, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution demolishes the myth of the beneficent West and reveals the perils and possibilities of Africa’s postcolonial revolutions to chart a socialist future for the world.” - Robin D. G. Kelley, author of (Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times) “Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution helps bring into focus a key feature of C. L. R. James’s intellectual preoccupations from the mid-1940s into the 1960s: how he thought about Africa and African independence for a decolonizing Caribbean. A fulsome portrait of his political thought.” - Minkah Makalani, author of (In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939)

C. L. R. James (1901–1989), a Trinidadian historian, political activist, and writer, is the author of Beyond a Boundary, World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International, and other books, all also published by Duke University Press.

• Editor's Note  viiAcknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James / Leslie James  xiNkrumah and the Ghana RevolutionIntroduction 1977 Edition  5Part I1. The Myth  232. The Masses Set the Stage  333. The People in 1947  414. The Revolution in Theory  505. The Men on the Spot  656. The People and the Leader  767. Positive Action  1048. The Party under Fire  1139. The Tip of the Iceberg  124Part II1. Government and Party  1352. 1962: Twenty Years After  1493. Slippery Descent  1524. Lenin and the Problem  1585. “ . . . Always out of Africa”  179Appendix 1 Correspondence, 1957  189Notes on Appendix 1 / Leslie James  189Extract of letter from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee, Addressed to Martin Glaberman  190Letters from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee  191Appendix 2 “Africa: The Threatening Catastrophe-A Necessary Introduction,” 1964  199Note on Appendix 2 / Leslie James  199Introduction from “Nkrumah Then and Now”  200Notes  221Index  229

“This little-known text holds a well-kept secret: Ghana was far more important than Haiti in transforming C. L. R. James’s theory of revolution. Leslie James’s illuminating introduction situates the book within a broader radical Pan-African context. Assembled from over a decade of critical observation, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution demolishes the myth of the beneficent West and reveals the perils and possibilities of Africa’s postcolonial revolutions to chart a socialist future for the world.” - Robin D. G. Kelley, author of (Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times) “Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution helps bring into focus a key feature of C. L. R. James’s intellectual preoccupations from the mid-1940s into the 1960s: how he thought about Africa and African independence for a decolonizing Caribbean. A fulsome portrait of his political thought.” - Minkah Makalani, author of (In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939)

C. L. R. James (1901–1989), a Trinidadian historian, political activist, and writer, is the author of Beyond a Boundary, World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International, and other books, all also published by Duke University Press.

• Editor's Note  viiAcknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James / Leslie James  xiNkrumah and the Ghana RevolutionIntroduction 1977 Edition  5Part I1. The Myth  232. The Masses Set the Stage  333. The People in 1947  414. The Revolution in Theory  505. The Men on the Spot  656. The People and the Leader  767. Positive Action  1048. The Party under Fire  1139. The Tip of the Iceberg  124Part II1. Government and Party  1352. 1962: Twenty Years After  1493. Slippery Descent  1524. Lenin and the Problem  1585. “ . . . Always out of Africa”  179Appendix 1 Correspondence, 1957  189Notes on Appendix 1 / Leslie James  189Extract of letter from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee, Addressed to Martin Glaberman  190Letters from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee  191Appendix 2 “Africa: The Threatening Catastrophe-A Necessary Introduction,” 1964  199Note on Appendix 2 / Leslie James  199Introduction from “Nkrumah Then and Now”  200Notes  221Index  229

“This little-known text holds a well-kept secret: Ghana was far more important than Haiti in transforming C. L. R. James’s theory of revolution. Leslie James’s illuminating introduction situates the book within a broader radical Pan-African context. Assembled from over a decade of critical observation, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution demolishes the myth of the beneficent West and reveals the perils and possibilities of Africa’s postcolonial revolutions to chart a socialist future for the world.” - Robin D. G. Kelley, author of (Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times) “Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution helps bring into focus a key feature of C. L. R. James’s intellectual preoccupations from the mid-1940s into the 1960s: how he thought about Africa and African independence for a decolonizing Caribbean. A fulsome portrait of his political thought.” - Minkah Makalani, author of (In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939)