The Dilemma of Diasporic Africans

Adger Emerson Player and Anti-Americanism in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2098613
AutoresEmmanuella Amoh (0000-0002-3465-1720, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen65
Número3
Páginas544-567
Fecha de publicación2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2022.54
OpenAlexW4290635040
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas20

Postcolonial Ghana faced many challenges, which led to a hunt for saboteurs of Black liberation epitomized in anti-Americanism. In 1964, Adger Emerson Player, an African American, rescued the United States flag from a Ghanaian anti-American demonstration. The differing interpretations of Player's deed by Ghanaians and Americans reveal the contestation between racial and national identities, which is also a facet of the broader diasporic African identity dilemmas. Amoh examines this incident within the context of post-independence Ghana and the U.S. Civil Rights struggle to highlight the complexity of diasporic Africans' relations with Africa and ongoing debates on the substance of pan-Africanism and global Blackness

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