Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution

In this new edition of <i>Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution</i> C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although James wrote it in the immediate post-independence period around 1958 he did not publish it until nearly twenty years later when he added a series of his own letters speeches and articles from the 1960s. Although Nkrumah led the revolution James emphasizes that it was a popular mass movement fundamentally realized by the actions of everyday Ghanaians. Moreover James shows that Ghana's independence movement was an exceptional moment in global revolutionary history: it moved revolutionary activity to the African continent and employed new tactics not seen in previous revolutions. Featuring a new introduction by Leslie James an unpublished draft of C. L. R. James's introduction to the 1977 edition and correspondence this definitive edition of <i>Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution</i> offers a revised understanding of Africa's shaping of freedom movements and insight into the possibilities for decolonial futures.