| Contents |
Introduction -- A foreign policy of the mind, 1945-1954 -- Offering hungry minds a better development project, 1955-1956 -- The Pan-African path to modernity, 1957-1958 -- Redefining decolonization in the Sahara, 1959-1960 -- The Congo crisis as the litmus test for psychological modernization, 1960-1961 -- Managing the effects of modernization, 1961-1963 -- The struggle to defeat racial modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia, 1963-1966 -- The collapse of anticolonial modernization, 1963-1966 -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract |
"After 1945 African nationalists were drawn into a battle for African hearts and minds. Rather than choose between East or West, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana promoted a vision of anticolonial modernity and competed with imperial, communist, and capitalist modernization schemes to prove the superiority of his plan for postcolonial order"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Gerits, Frank. Ideological scramble for Africa Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2023] 9781501767913 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022019501 |
| ISBN | 9781501767937 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781501767920 (pdf) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
