Kwame Nkrumah’s Encounter with Karl Marx
Nkrumah’s written works and speeches reveal a selective encounter and appropriation of tools—in this case from Marxist thought—that were translated through Nkrumah’s traveling theory.
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Paul Emiljanowicz’s research focuses on the tensions, ambiguities, and contestations between competing visions of pan-Africanism and the “future” in 1960s anticolonial thought.
Nkrumah’s written works and speeches reveal a selective encounter and appropriation of tools—in this case from Marxist thought—that were translated through Nkrumah’s traveling theory.
What lessons can we draw from 1960s and 1970s anticolonialism and pan-Africanism to rethink the nation state today?