Socialist de-colony : Black and Soviet entanglements in Ghana's Cold War /
Osei-Opare, Nana
Socialist de-colony : Black and Soviet entanglements in Ghana's Cold War / Nana Osei-Opare. - 1 online resource (xx, 326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Global and international history . - Global and international history. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Nov 2025).
'Highlife Solidarity' : White Supremacy & Black Postcolonial Statecraft -- Ghost Projects : Contested Cold War Scientific-Technical Liberation Zones -- Racial Citizenship Moments : Social Diplomacy and the Cold War -- Black Marxists and the Character of an African Leninist Economy -- Socialism Reconsidered : The Domestication & Worldmaking of Socialism -- Utopias, Dystopias, Labor, and Socialist 'Contradictions' -- 'Forward Ever, Backward Never.'
Open Access.
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.
9781009601481 (ebook)
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
Socialism--Ghana.
Racism against Black people--Ghana.
Ghana--History--1957-
Ghana--Relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Relations--Ghana.
DT512 / .O84 2025
966.705
Socialist de-colony : Black and Soviet entanglements in Ghana's Cold War / Nana Osei-Opare. - 1 online resource (xx, 326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Global and international history . - Global and international history. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Nov 2025).
'Highlife Solidarity' : White Supremacy & Black Postcolonial Statecraft -- Ghost Projects : Contested Cold War Scientific-Technical Liberation Zones -- Racial Citizenship Moments : Social Diplomacy and the Cold War -- Black Marxists and the Character of an African Leninist Economy -- Socialism Reconsidered : The Domestication & Worldmaking of Socialism -- Utopias, Dystopias, Labor, and Socialist 'Contradictions' -- 'Forward Ever, Backward Never.'
Open Access.
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.
9781009601481 (ebook)
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
Socialism--Ghana.
Racism against Black people--Ghana.
Ghana--History--1957-
Ghana--Relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Relations--Ghana.
DT512 / .O84 2025
966.705