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Nkrumah & the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951ý1960 (West African Series (Oxford, England).)

AUTHOR: Richard Rathbone
ISBN: 0821413066
SHORT DESCRIPTION: The end of independent chieftaincy must be one of the most fundamental changes in the long history of Ghana, and one of the central achievements that Kwame Nkrumah and his movement brought about. Nkrumah & the Chiefs examines a radical nationalist...

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Nkrumah & the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951ý1960 (West African Series (Oxford, England).)
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Nkrumah and the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951-1960

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This book is an account of Kwame Nkrumah and his government's long struggle to wrest administrative control of the Ghanaian countryside from the chiefs. Based largely upon previously unstudied documentation in Ghana, this study charts the government's frustrated attempts to democratize local government and the long and bitter campaigns mounted by many southern chiefs to resist their political marginalization.

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