Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution

"This little-known text holds a well-kept secret: Ghana was far more important than Haiti in transforming C. L. R. James's theory of revolution. Leslie James's illuminating introduction situates the book within a broader radical Pan-African context. Assembled from over a decade of critical observation, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution demolishes the myth of the beneficent West and reveals the perils and possibilities of Africa's postcolonial revolutions to chart a socialist future for the world." - Robin D. G. Kelley, author of (Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times) "Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution helps bring into focus a key feature of C. L. R. James's intellectual preoccupations from the mid-1940s into the 1960s: how he thought about Africa and African independence for a decolonizing Caribbean. A fulsome portrait of his political thought." - Minkah Makalani, author of (In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939)