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Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Ghana

by Mary A. Seiwaa Owusu
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781009524667
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 314
  • Original Price: GBP 90.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 590 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Africa / General

Nineteenth and twentieth-century West African writer-intellectuals harnessed their Atlantic networks to explore ideas of race, regeneration, and nation-building. Yet, the ultimately cosmopolitan nature of these political and intellectual pursuits has been overlooked by dominant narratives of anti-colonial history. In contrast, Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Ghana uses cosmopolitanism as a primary theoretical tool, interrogating the anti-colonial writings that prop up Ghana's nationalist history under a new light. Mary A. Seiwaa Owusu highlights the limitations of accepted labels of nationalist scholarship and confirms that these writer-intellectuals instead engaged with ideas around the globe. This study offers a more complex account of the nation-building project, arguing for the pivotal role of other groups and factors in addition to Kwame Nkrumah's leadership. In turn, it proposes a historical account which assumes a cosmopolitan setting, highlights the centrality of debate, and opens a vista for richer understandings of Ghanaians' longstanding questions about thriving in the world.

Owusu, Mary A. Seiwaa: - Mary A. Seiwaa Owusu teaches African history at Carleton University, with her research highlighting marginalised events and personalities. She is Cadbury Fellow (2007); Fulbright scholar-in-residence (2011); Izaak Walton Killam Predoctoral Fellow (2014); and Barbara Harlow Award recipient (2019). Previous publications include Prempeh II and the Making of Modern Asante (2009). Dr Owusu heads the UN-ITU U4SSC Ghana Country Hub.

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