Title:	The Regime Change of Kwame Nkrumah Epic Heroism in Africa And the Diaspor a
Authors:	Rahman, Ahmad A.
Keywords:	Change
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	Kwame Francis Nwia Nkrumah ’s modern-day detractors disparage his leadership and his writings for propaganda, myth-making, and symbol manipulation. Hugh Seton-Watson thought that Nkrumah possessed “more the hysteria of Hitler and the vanity of Mussolini, than the genius of Lenin.”1 Ali Mazrui, on the other hand, believed that Nkrumah did resemble Lenin, but as a “Leninist Czar.”2 In so doing, they devalue these qualities as if they presaged Nkrumah’s failure or were evidence of his corruption. However, analyzing Nkrumah’s social psychology is essential to creating a methodology that goes beyond the perceived limits of social science. The process of colonization was itself a far-reaching psychological operation, called “Psy-Ops” in the parlance of modern warfare. Propaganda, myth-making, and symbol manipulation were the colonialists’ essential catechism for centuries. Hence, the anticolonial movement that Nkrumah led had to counter the images colonialism had created in African minds with appropriate decolonizing propaganda, myth-making, and symbol manipulation
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/72540
ISBN:	978-0-230-60348-6
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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