The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland

A historical investigation of a grass-roots political movement in the former German colony of Togo, this book constitutes an important contribution to scholarship that re-evaluates post-Second World War African nationalism. Rejecting retrospective analyses that take as a given post-colonial nation-states established within old colonial boundaries, Kate Skinner’s monograph joins others that consider alternative political projects and formations, most of which were overlooked or ignored by scholars who were shaped during the period of nationalist fervour. Marshalling evidence from oral interviews, government and missionary archives, and private collections in Ghana, Togo, France and the United Kingdom, Skinner focuses on the leaders and activists of Ablode (Freedom), a political movement in British Togoland that imagined nationhood differently. Because the movement failed, it has been largely relegated to the periphery of historical inquiry. Skinner revisits the movement and reconstructs its history in order to understand better the paths not taken and the implications of those choices for post-colonial societies

Archaeology · Colonialism · German · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Law

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