Graduation Term
2019
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Department of History
Committee Chair
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.
Access Type
Thesis-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Amoh, Emmanuella, "Kwame Nkrumah, His Afro-american Network and the Pursuit of an African Personality" (2019). Theses and Dissertations. 1067.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/1067
DOI
http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2019.Amoh.E