PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Amoh, Emmanuella
TI  - Revisiting Kwame Nkrumah’s African Personality
AID  - 10.3368/gs.25.1.33
DP  - 2023 Feb 15
TA  - Ghana Studies
PG  - 33--56
VI  - 25
IP  - 1
4099  - https://gs.uwpress.org/gs.uwpress.org/content/25/1/33.short
4100  - https://gs.uwpress.org/gs.uwpress.org/content/25/1/33.full
SO  - Gha Stu2023 Feb 15; 25
AB  - In 1963, President Kwame Nkrumah announced there would be a national television, which was to be Ghanaian, socialist, and African in content, departing from the commercialism and sensationalism of Western television. The goals of what would become Ghana Broadcasting television were part of Nkrumah’s pursuit of an African Personality. This article examines the complexity of the African Personality, which lies within diaspora African politics, and the tension between Africanism and Westernization. Using Ghana television as a lens, it asserts that the African Personality was not anti-Western or an essentialization of African culture. Rather, it was a revolutionary praxis envisioned by Nkrumah and his diaspora network for decolonization, Pan-Africanism, and postcolonial nation-building.