The Disappearing of Hannah Kudjoe

Nationalism, Feminism, and the Tyrannies of History

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9398686
AutoresJean Allman (0000-0003-3410-4839, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume21
Fascículo3
Páginas13-35
Data de publicação2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of women's history (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1042-7961 • E-ISSN: 1527-2036
EditoraBinghamton University (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jowh.0.0096
OpenAlexW1998286659
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas14

Hannah Kudjoe was Ghana's leading woman nationalist in the struggle for independence from British colonial rule in the 1940s and 1950s. As Ghana celebrated a half century of independence in 2007 and the heroes of that struggle were publicly honored by street naming ceremonies, the unveiling of statues, and historical reenactments, Hannah Kudjoe's name was nowhere to be found. Who was Hannah Kudjoe and how could such a high-profile, formidable, and well-connected nationalist leader be forgotten so quickly? Employing an agnotological approach to women's history that interrogates the construction of ignorance and sanctioned forgetting, this article traces the processes by which Hannah Kudjoe "got disappeared," and the ways in which feminist and nationalist histories have conspired in her disappearing

Archaeology · Art · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Feminism · Forgetting · Ignorance · Independence (probability theory · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · South African History and Culture