At midnight on March 6, 1957, Crown subjects in the Gold Coast celebrated the end of British colonial rule by naming themselves citizens of a new nation-state, the Republic of Ghana. As Howard W.
In this magisterial account, journalist French (Born in Blackness) revisits the history of the Pan-Africanist movement through the life of Ghanaian prime minister Kwame Nkrumah, who in 1957 became the ...