Kwame Nkrumah's Political Kingdom and Pan-Africanism Reinterpreted, 1909-1972

This book provides an in-depth study of the life of the late Pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah. The authors present a twenty-first-century reinterpretation of Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanist views in the context of Black unity as well as Black liberation within the African continent and the United States and Caribbean diaspora.

A.B. Assensoh is emeritus professor of Indiana University and courtesy emeritus professor at University of Oregon. Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh is professor of political science and vice president of equity and inclusion at University of Oregon.

Chronology (1909-1972) Chapter 1: Birth, Early Education and Employment Chapter 2: Overseas Student Years: Nkrumah's American and UK Sojourns, 1935-1947 Chapter 3: Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism: A New Interpretation Chapter 4: Years of Activism and Post-Colonial Gold Coast, 1947-1960 Chapter 5: Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah's Political Kingdom, 1960-1966 Epilogue: The 1966 Coup, Exile, Death, and Cultural Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah