Violent Beginnings: Defending and Constructing the ‘black’ Ghanaian Citizen in the Cold War
Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York CityOn March 6, 1957, Ghana gained its independence from Great Britain. Under the famed leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, the first newly independent sub-Saharan African country had several pressing questions on its plate: Who was Ghanaian? What were the new government’s duty and role to its citizens? Moreover, what would Ghana’s political and economic relationship to the Capitalist and Socialist world…