Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972)
Auteur de Le néo-colonialisme : Dernier stade de l'impérialisme
A propos de l'auteur
Born on the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), the son of a goldsmith and market trader from the Nzima tribe, Kwame Nkrumah was educated in the United States and Great Britain. His earlier degrees were in economics, sociology, and theology, but he also received an M.A. and did doctoral work in afficher plus philosophy. In 1945 he put aside the academic career for which he had been training under Sir Alfred Ayer and became a Marxian political activist for the cause of Africans at home and abroad. He returned to the Gold Coast in 1947 and led the nationalist movement, for which he was jailed by the British. He was released in 1952, became prime minister, and helped effect independence in 1957, renaming the country Ghana. He served as president until 1966, when he was deposed by a military coup. He died in Bucharest, Rumania, while undergoing treatment for cancer. A distinctive dimension to Nkrumah's political impact was his contribution to Marxist socialist theory, with particular application to today's Africa. In this regard, his theory of "consciencism" is the most central. Nkrumah saw Africa pulled by the three religious value systems represented by indigenous tradition, Islam, and European Christianity. This is what Nkrumah saw as the crisis of African "conscience." Ultimately, according to Nkrumah, the solution lies in the qualified acceptance of Marxist socialism, but a socialism adapted to the cultural context of Africa. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution. (Little new world paperbacks) (1968) 37 exemplaires
Challenge of the Congo : A Case Study of Foreign Pressures in an Independent State (1967) 17 exemplaires
le néocolonialisme dernière stade de l'impérialisme 14 exemplaires
Kwame Nkrumah: Un Lider y un Pueblo 2 exemplaires
Thirty Years of African Liberation Day 2 exemplaires
Boj o Zlaté pobøeí 1 exemplaire
Hands off Africa! 1 exemplaire
Afrika'da Sınıf Mücadelesi 1 exemplaire
A Luta de Classes em África 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1909-09-21
- Date de décès
- 1972-04-27
- Lieu de sépulture
- Accra, Ghana
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ghana
- Lieux de résidence
- Accra, Ghana
Conakry, Guinea - Études
- Achimota School
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania - Professions
- Prime Minister of Ghana
President of Ghana - Relations
- Brown, Sterling Allen (professor)
- Organisations
- Convention People's Party
- Courte biographie
- Kwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966. He became the first Prime Minister of the Gold Coast in 1951, and led it to independence as Ghana in 1957, becoming the new country's first Prime Minister. After Ghana became a republic in 1960, Nkrumah became President. An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963. He saw himself as an African Lenin. [Wikipedia]
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Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism par Kwame Nkrumah
A powerful indictment of U.S.-led Western imperialism's exploitation and plundering of Africa. The author, the first President and Prime Minister of Ghana, takes Lenin's famous book on imperialism and applies it specifically to Africa.
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