Pan Africanism and civil religious performance: Kwame Nkrumah and the independence of Ghana

Mensah, Eric Opoku

dc.contributor.author	Mensah, Eric Opoku
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-09T10:08:38Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-09T10:08:38Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.identifier.issn	23105496
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6385
dc.description	19p:, ill.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Kwame Nkrumah’s Independence declaration speech was widely seen as a key rhetorical moment in the fight towards decolonization in Africa. The purpose of this essay is to unravel reasons why the speech was not only quintessential to Ghana’s transition into an independent nation, but also crucial to Africa’s long journey towards freedom from Western imperialism. Hence, it is argued that the significance of Nkrumah’s rhetorical invention is in the symbolic birth of a new nation, providing rhetorical force to the Pan Africa agenda, and in performing the role of a high priest in a civil religious ceremony with citizens of a new nation	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Cape Coast	en_US
dc.subject	Gold Coast	en_US
dc.subject	Ghana	en_US
dc.subject	Rhetoric	en_US
dc.subject	Pan Africanism	en_US
dc.subject	Nkrumah	en_US
dc.title	Pan Africanism and civil religious performance: Kwame Nkrumah and the independence of Ghana	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US