Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance

Name: Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana\u2019s independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature. He examines Nkrumah\u2019s construction of a myth described in the book as the Unite or Perish myth (i.e., the idea of a \u2018United States of Africa\u2019 being a prerequisite for the survival of Africa in the post-independence period), exploring the rhetorical resources he deployed, categorizing and analyzing key tropes and metaphors, and setting out the myth\u2019s basic components.