Date of Award

3-22-2019

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Department of History

First Advisor

Agbyenga Adedze

Abstract

This thesis explores the pursuit of a new African personality in post-colonial Ghana by President Nkrumah and his African American network. I argue that Nkrumah’s engagement with African Americans in the pursuit of an African Personality transformed diaspora relations with Africa. It also seeks to explore Black women in this transnational history. Women are not perceived to be as mobile as men in transnationalism thereby underscoring their inputs in the construction of certain historical events. But through examining the lived experiences of Shirley Graham Du Bois and to an extent Maya Angelou and Pauli Murray in Ghana, the African American woman’s role in the building of Nkrumah’s Ghana will be explored in this thesis.

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Imported from ProQuest Amoh_ilstu_0092N_11412.pdf

DOI

http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2019.Amoh.E

Page Count

111

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