Lexington Books
Pages: 236
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66695-351-0 • Hardback • August 2024 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-66695-352-7 • eBook • August 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Charles Asante is lecturer at the Center for African and International Studies at the University of Cape Coast.
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter One: An Introduction to Norm Entrepreneurship
Chapter Two: The Intellectual Roots of Pan-Africanism
Chapter Three: The Emergence of Kwame Nkrumah as a Norm Entrepreneur
Chapter Four: The Ghanaian State: Post-Independence Period, 1950s―1960s
Chapter Five: Kwame Nkrumah’s Pan-African Foreign Policy: The Congo Intervention
Chapter Six: Kwame Nkrumah and the Creation of the Organization of African Unity: An Embodiment of Pan-Africanism
Chapter Seven: Kwame Nkrumah’s Demise and Foreign Policy Legacy
Conclusion
Appendix: Primary Research (Interviews)
Bibliography
About the Author
Ghana's Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah’s Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism brings Africa and Ghana into the western-centric study of international relations theory in a new and compelling way. Based on extensive interviews and a deep reading of published work, Charles Asante argues that Kwame Nkrumah’s struggle for independence set a norm and created an identity which the Ghanaian state cannot escape. By presenting Nkrumah as a norm-leader who also struggled to implement his vision, this book explains the enduring influence of the postcolonial leaders who came into power immediately after independence in Africa. Asante succeeds in highlighting the importance of deeply studying African agency in international relations, while also remaining critical of Ghana’s leader. Asante's research is a prime example of how IR theory scholarship can benefit from the integration of postcolonial perspectives and should therefore be widely read.
— Frank Gerits, Utrecht University