Socialist De-Colony

Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War

Nana Osei-Opare (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

348 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-60143-6 (ISBN)

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In 1957, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom. Nana Osei-Opare offers a provocative reading of this defining moment. He demonstrates how race and Soviet influence enabled and disrupted Ghana's transformational projects to secure Black freedom. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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.

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).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Global and International History
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	614 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-009-60143-1 / 1009601431
ISBN-13	978-1-009-60143-6 / 9781009601436
Zustand	Neuware