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Letters From Ghana 1968 1970
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Author : Jon Thiem
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-11
Letters From Ghana 1968 1970 written by Jon Thiem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11 with History categories.
Several years back, author/editor Jon Thiem mentioned to a young woman (with a Ph.D.) that in the late 1960s he had served with the Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa. She thought he was referring to a United Nations Peace Keeping operation! The incident inspired him to compile this collection of letters. The passionate 60s were, famously, a time of disastrous war, bloody protest, and disturbing cultural innovation. In this context, Peace Corps became a symbol of hope-a desperate hope that peace and progress might replace government-imposed violence. Thousands of (mainly) young Peace Corps volunteers scattered throughout the world to carry out a variety of humanitarian projects. The body of letters that resulted is a rich but neglected legacy. From August 1968 to June 1970, Thiem was a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in the rain forest of southern Ghana. There he taught English literature at the district secondary school. Every two weeks or so, he sent letters and audio tapes to the States, describing his day-to-day impressions of Ghana-the miseries and splendors of life in the tropics. The letters of Thiem and two other U.S. volunteers offer raw, immediate impressions of the daily routines, hard living, and cross-cultural labyrinths experienced by teachers in a rural equatorial environment. Composed during Peace Corps service, they bear the living marks of their own genesis. These texts are not memoirs informed by hindsight, but naive testimonies, fresh and ignorant of the future, filled with astonishment. Thiem's SDS background gives this collection a lot of political content, which takes in U.S. Vietnam policy, dramatic government changes in Ghana, school politics, village power struggles, and controversies about Peace Corps' mission. The letters not only give fascinating pictures of the United States as seen through Ghanaian eyes (in an era of limited access to world news), but also show how U.S. volunteers in Ghana struggle to grasp the eruptions of civil conflict and violence at home. Peace Corps set in motion energetic and far-reaching development campaigns, yet its efforts were denounced by both the political right and the left (for reasons discussed in the Introduction and letters). Its mission and effectiveness remain controversial to this day. With some justification, Peace Corps volunteers have been called "secular missionaries." This edition of letters takes into account recent studies that challenge the methods, ideologies, and political motives underlying development programs like Peace Corps. Many of the letters highlight the troubling contradictions that arise when a humanitarian organization intervenes in a society whose purposes and norms differ from the project of modernity. And yet the letters also complicate some of the easy generalizations made in such criticisms, which at times underrepresent the achievements of the modernizers and the strong desire on the part of African leaders and their constituents to improve education and health care. Another strand in this book tracks the efforts of Thiem and his colleague "Ohene" Owoahene to collect and translate Asante poems, an endangered oral tradition. It is ironic that Thiem went to rural Ghana to encourage modern thinking, but ended up becoming spellbound by the mythical world of Asante court poetry, which celebrates the bloody deeds and magical powers of ancient kings. The letters by writers other than Thiem make this a truly polyphonic-sometimes cacophonic-collection. There are texts by other Peace Corps volunteers and by correspondents from the U.S. The voices of Ghanaian nationals-teachers, students, politicians, and villagers-are "heard" in the letters and transcribed audio tapes. Other distinctive features of Letters from Ghana are an incisive introduction and individual commentaries that situate the letters in their historical, geographical, and personal contexts. The book includes a map, glossary, timeline, and 29 photos.
Politicians And Soldiers In Ghana 1966 1972
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Author : Dennis Austin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-25
Politicians And Soldiers In Ghana 1966 1972 written by Dennis Austin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with History categories.
First published in 1975. Legatee of a vast empire, the Commonwealth still carries the imprint of its past, and in doing so it may be said to have a collective identity which, in a very varying degree, each of its members exhibits. This can sustain a collective inquiry into the political history and institutions of countries which were once governed within the British Empire. The present series of books is intended to express that interest and those traditions. They are presented not as a guide to the Commonwealth as a corporate entity, but as studies either in the politics and recent history of its member states or of themes which are of common interest to several of the countries concerned. This volume It examines the attempt to restore, and the failure to maintain, a parliamentary Westminster form of government in Ghana, a study in 'Commonwealth Legacies' which brings together scholars from Ghana, Britain and North America.
Ghana
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Author : Jeffrey Ahlman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-05
Ghana written by Jeffrey Ahlman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and intellectual hub for British West Africa. Half a century later, when Ghana became the first sub-Saharan state to emerge from European colonial rule, it became a key site for a burgeoning, transnational, African anticolonial politics that drew activists, freedom fighters, and intellectuals from around the world. As the twentieth century came to a close, Ghana also became an international symbol of the putative successes of post-Cold-War African liberalization and democratization projects. Here Jeffrey Ahlman narrates this rich political history stretching from the beginnings of the very idea of the "Gold Coast" to the country's 1992 democratization, which paved the way for the Fourth Republic. At the same time, he offers a rich social history stretching that examines the sometimes overlapping, sometimes divergent nature of what it means to be Ghanaian through discussions of marriage, ethnicity, and migration; of cocoa as a cultural system; of the multiple meanings of chieftaincy; and of other contemporary markers of identity. Throughout it all, Ahlman distills decades of work by other scholars while also drawing on a wide array of archival, oral, journalistic, and governmental sources in order to provide his own fresh insights. For its clear, comprehensive coverage not only of Ghanaian history, but also of the major debates shaping nineteenth- and twentieth-century African politics and society more broadly, Ghana: A Political and Social History is a must-read for students and scholars of African Studies.
Clr James
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Author : John L Williams
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-03-17
Clr James written by John L Williams and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, inspired Kwame Nkrumah, and was a profound influence on the British Black Power movement. And yet by the late 1970s, CLR James was all but forgotten. The books he had written over the past half century were nearly all out of print. There were a few circles in which his name rang a bell: serious students of Black history; obsessive cricket fans. But that was it. When he died in Brixton in 1989, CLR James was internationally famous - lauded as the greatest of Black British intellectuals: the 'Black Plato', according to The Times. The ideas he put forward in his own time - of the importance of identity alongside class, of rebellion coming from below, of the leading roles of Black people, women and youth in political struggle - have gradually made their way to the forefront of our political thinking. His two great books, The Black Jacobins and Beyond a Boundary, still have the power to change readers' understanding of the world today. But while CLR James's work has been much examined, his long and remarkable life story has often been overlooked. For the first time, in a biography full of original research, human drama and keen insight, John L. Williams unveils the rich and compelling story of an intellectual giant. In doing so, he firmly establishes the importance of CLR James for the twenty-first century - if Black Britain has had a presiding genius, it remains CLR James.
Building The Ghanaian Nation State
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Author : H. Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-10
Building The Ghanaian Nation State written by H. Fuller and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-10 with Political Science categories.
Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons.
Robert Mcnamara S Other War
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Author : Patrick Allan Sharma
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2017-04-07
Robert Mcnamara S Other War written by Patrick Allan Sharma and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-07 with History categories.
Robert McNamara is best known for his key role in the escalation of the Vietnam War as U.S. secretary of defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The familiar story begins with the brilliant young executive transforming Ford Motor Company, followed by his rise to political power under Kennedy, and culminating in his downfall after eight years of failed military policies. Many believe McNamara's fall from grace after Vietnam marked the end of his career. They were wrong. In Robert McNamara's Other War, Patrick Allan Sharma reveals the previously untold story of what happened next. As president of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981, McNamara changed the way many people thought about international development by shifting the World Bank's focus to poverty alleviation. Though his efforts to redeem himself after his failures in Vietnam were well-intentioned, Sharma argues, his expansion of the World Bank's agenda contributed to a decline in the quality of its activities. McNamara's policies at the Bank also helped lay the groundwork for the economic crises that have plagued the developing world during the past three decades. Not only has Sharma crafted an engaging chronicle of one of the most enigmatic figures in modern American history; he has also produced one of the first detailed histories of the World Bank. He mines previously unstudied Bank documents that have only recently become available to researchers as well as material from archives on three continents. Sharma's extensive research shows that McNamara's influence extended well beyond Vietnam and that his World Bank years may be his most enduring legacy.
Boundaries Communities And State Making In West Africa
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Author : Paul Nugent
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-06
Boundaries Communities And State Making In West Africa written by Paul Nugent and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-06 with Political Science categories.
By examining three centuries of history, this book shows how vital border regions have been in shaping states and social contracts.
Mail And Guardian Soccer Annual
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Author : Julia Beffon
language : en
Publisher: Mail & Guardian
Release Date : 2000
Mail And Guardian Soccer Annual written by Julia Beffon and has been published by Mail & Guardian this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Sports & Recreation categories.
News Letter
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Author : United States. Dept. of State
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
News Letter written by United States. Dept. of State and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Diplomatic and consular service, American categories.
Confinement Punishment And Prisons In Africa
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Author : Marie Morelle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-10
Confinement Punishment And Prisons In Africa written by Marie Morelle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-10 with History categories.
This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa. The book stresses the contingent, porous nature of African prisons, across both time and space. It draws on original long-term ethnographic research undertaken in both Francophone and Anglophone settings, which are grouped in four parts. The first part examines how the prison has imprinted itself on wider political and social imaginaries and, in turn, how structures of imprisonment carry the imprint of political action of various times. The second part stresses how particular forms of ordering emerge in African prisons. It is held that while these often involve coercion and neglect, they are better understood as the product of on-going negotiations and the search for meaning and value on the part of a multitude of actors. The third part is concerned with how prison life percolates beyond its physical perimeters into its urban and rural surroundings, and vice versa. It deals with the popular and contested nature of what prisons are about and what they do, especially in regard to bringing about moral subjects. The fourth and final part of the book examines how efforts of reforming and resisting the prison take shape at the intersection of globally circulating models of good governance and levels of self-organisation by prisoners. The book will be an essential reference for students, academics and policy-makers in Law, Criminology, Sociology and Politics.