We have heard a lot about decolonization over the last few years. From curricula, to science, to Hollywood blockbusters, to curating — few institutions have escaped the pervasive demands for the recalibration and reconfiguration of hitherto established norms and practices. There has also been a surge in writing about post-colonial African history during this period, but what does decolonization actually mean in practice? To generalize, this scholarship revisits the praxis of post-colonial African history to revise tired stories about nationalist decay, corruption, state-failure and extraversion, in favor of more nuanced accounts of the quotidian work that went into (re)making the world after empire. Ghana has been the prototype for both the romanticized  drama of decolonization and the narrative of post-colonial decline. Both narratives are true, to a certain extent, but as Jeffrey Ahlman reveals in his recently published book, Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State and Pan-Africanism in Ghana (Ohio University Press, 2017), decolonization also meant dramatic changes in gendered regimes, social identity, work, labor and belonging, manifest in citizens daily lives. His is a rich account, generated from oral histories and creative use of disparate archives. Ahlman generously answered a few questions from AIAC.