Conceptualizing ‘Land’ and ‘Nation’ in Early Gold Coast Nationalism

This chapter reconstructs in detail the shifting meaning of the notion of 'land' in Gold Coast public discourses (academic, public and newspaper writing) in the context of the struggles against colonial land laws in the 1890s and early 1900s. It traces how, gradually, a notion of 'Fatherland' (or 'Nation') emerged during this process which later formed the basis of 20th century nationalist thought. Methods used are discourse analyses and quantitative analyses on conceopts used in newspaper entries

African Political Philosophy, 1860-1995:An inquiry into families of discourse

This is a book of interpretation, not of fact. It studies the major discourses in African political thought throughout the last one and a half centuries, rendering new interpretations of a number of important theorists. Subsequently, this book analyzes paradigmatic models of thought that recur in pre-colonial, colonial, as well as post-colonial political discourses. This in depth analysis allows for a critical inventory of African political thought at the close of the twentieth century.