Living with Nkrumahism
NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES
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Living with Nkrumahism
Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana
Jeffrey S. Ahlman
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The following material has been previously published in a different form. Ahlman, Jeffrey S. “Managing the Pan-African Workplace: Discipline, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of the Ghanaian Bureau of African Affairs.” Ghana Studies 15/16 (2012/2013): 337–371. © 2013 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Reproduced courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Press.
Ahlman, Jeffrey S. “A New Type of Citizen: Youth, Gender, and Generation in the Ghanaian Builders Brigade.” Journal of African History 53, no. 1 (2012): 87–105. © 2012 by Cambridge University Press. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ahlman, Jeffrey S., 1982- author.
Title: Living with Nkrumahism : nation, state, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana / Jeffrey S. Ahlman.
Other titles: New African histories series.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: New African histories
Identifiers: LCCN 2017036212| ISBN 9780821422922 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422939 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446157 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972--Influence. | Ghana--Politics and government--1957-1979. | Ghana--Politics and government--1979-2001. | Decolonization--Ghana. | Pan-Africanism.
Classification: LCC DT510.62 A35 2017 | DDC 966.705--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036212
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