Building the Ghanaian Nation-state : Kwame Nkrumah's Symbolic Nationalism (African Histories and Modernities)

Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons.