American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights EraIn 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Paul |
Contents
Watching the World from Ghana | 1 |
Black Modernity Subjecthood and Demands for Full Citizenship | 27 |
Black Intellectuals and the Anticolonial Critique of Western Culture | 52 |
Nkrumah the Expatriates and Postindependence Ghana 19571960 | 77 |
The Congo Crisis and an African American Womans Dilemma | 110 |
Julian Mayfield and the Radical Afros | 136 |
6 Malcolm X in Ghana | 179 |
7 The Coup | 210 |
Ways of Seeing Ways of Being | 244 |
Memory and the Transnational Dimensions of African American Citizenship | 274 |
Notes | 287 |
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