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Socialist De-Colony

Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-20
Mått157 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt614 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal and International History
Antal sidor348
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009601436

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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.