A ‘New’ Commonwealth for Britain? Negotiating Ghana's Pan-African and Asian Connections at the End of Empire (1951–8)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11795282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mélanie Torrent (0000-0003-2271-0452, Délégation Paris 7, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 573-613 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0707-5332 • E-ISSN: 1949-6540 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07075332.2015.1076870 |
| OpenAlex | W2313608786 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article examines to what extent Nkrumah's Pan-African ambitions and Asian connections altered the meaning of the ‘new’ Commonwealth for British policy-makers. It discusses India's influence on British political options in the Gold Coast during the negotiations for independence and Commonwealth membership and assesses the impact of Ghana's Pan-Africanism on two major facets of Commonwealth politics: Britain's ability to balance its relations with the Commonwealth and France, the other main European actor in Africa; and Britain's capacity to maintain the idea of a common heritage, which Pan-African projects like the Ghana–Guinea Union threatened to disrupt
British Empire · Commonwealth · Development economics · Economics · Empire · Independence (probability theory · Meaning (existential · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Australian History and Society · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Law
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2018 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |