The Regime Change of Kwame Nkrumah Epic Heroism in Africa and the Diaspora [Hardcover]

This book tells the story of Kwame Nkrumah, the first post-colonial president of an independent African country. The book utilizes previously unpublished and recently declassified IS State Department documents to give an analysis and a chronology of Nkrumah's fall. The book is written for a general audience and for academic historians and students.The Ashanti Trickster in the Diaspora The Osagyefo Conquers The Myth of Afrotopia The African Messiah Versus the CIA A Myth is Broken The Legacy of Nkrumahism

This is an extremelywelcome addition to the scholarship on Nkrumah, the leadership of African liberation movements, andthe quest for Black liberation from the mid-1950's onward. This is history written with an electric verve in its narrative voice, and with a precisely researchedclarity.

- Melvin T. Peters, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Eastern Michigan University

Rahman is a brilliant political analyst and a longtime activist who brings enormous insight and skillful creativity to his study of Ghanaian leader and Pan-Africanist thinker, Kwame Nkrumah. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Africa, her past, her future, and the many complex personalities that she produced.

- Barbara Ransby, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

Rahman's study is an important contribution to Pan-Africanism, specifically the origins of the independence process and the role of the U.S. in the days before the new globalization took off. This study takes us into the logic of regime change, both as a function of internal contradictions and the logic of global domination. Rahman demonstrates that the Black Power paradigm for research can lead to a nuanced analysis of a complex historical process.

- Abdul Alkalimat, Professor of Sociology, and Director, Africana Studies Program, University of Toledo