.... Wright traveled to the Gold Coast colony in 1953 to witness and report on the nationalist movement for independence led by Kwame Nkrumah’s Convention Peoples party. Wright’s sojourn to Africa was as momentous as his exile...

... a popular destination since political independence. The contemporary presence of diaspora Blacks dates back to the mid-1950s, as Ghana’s independence and the Pan-Africanist vision of its first president, Kwame Nkrumah, reverberated throughout Africa...

... for different types of literature, theater, and music reflected patterns of urbanization and class differences.26 Around independence in 1957, partly through the patronage of Kwame Nkrumah’s new government and Convention People’s Party (CPP), highlife and concert party theater were instrumental...

... [Josef] Stalin a great, courageous man. He renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Kwame Nkrumah’s Marxist hellhole in Ghana.” Flynn also noted that given Du Bois’s decision to join the Communist Party, his reception of the Lenin...

... to him working in Kwame Nkrumah’s independent government in Ghana and informed his important study Black Folk Here and There.11 Drake would go on to partici- pate in the First African Diaspora Studies Institute organized in 1979 by Joseph Harris at Howard University, where he turned to diaspora...

... months in the Middle East and Africa, where, like his first trip in July 1959, he immersed himself in global South politics and cultivated relationships with a bevy of postcolonial leaders and activists, including Abd al-Rahman Azzam of the Arab League, Ahmed Sékou Touré of Guinea, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana...

..., Garvey is factored into the pan-African tradition, especially through the African intellectuals who dominated the movement after the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress, such as Kwame Nkrumah, who expressly cited Garvey’s...

... led, and by which particular African historicist dis- course? To what dead end have Kwame Nkrumah’s reflections on neo- colonialism and the African condition led? To what specific dead end have Chinweizu’s historicist strategies in The West and the Rest of Us led? To what dead end has negritude led...

.... 79. “In the end, the rural working-­class movement had won a New Deal for landless farmers by accepting a system of wage labor.” Roll, Spirit of Rebellion, 172. 80. C. L. R. James, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution (London: Allison...

... differently, as leaders like Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and Nehru in India saw the term as less value laden than the process of mimetic “Westernization” that had preceded it in the colonial era. Moreover, it was not construed as something that necessarily demanded cultural “cleansing.” As this was a more...

... 57 ST.03-Duncan/Lindberg 5/24/01 5:53 PM Page 58 GLB: Well, then we wouldn’t be dealing with America. That would be like my going to Ghana to work with Nkrumah. KL: One of the things to think about is diaspora...