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Monthly Review Press, 1965-01-01. Paperback. Good. Good condition with wear and markings. Ex-library.

Paperback. Very Good.

Monthly Review Press , pp. 122 . Papeback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Near Fine; see scans and description. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1970. Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization, by Kwame Nkrumah. ISBN 0853451362. Octavo, printed perfect-bound wraps, 122 pp. Near Fine, with no sal

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Monthly Review Press, 1965. First American edition, following the British of 1964. 122pp; index. 8vo; dark brown textured-paper boards; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Light bump to base of front board; former owner's name inked on ffep; light foxing to endpapers. Very good or better in like jacket, unclipped, with some toning and soiling, and light foxing to flaps and interior.
First American edition of this key work of revolutionary African political ideology, which applied an Afrocentric value system to a framework of Marxist-Leninist socialism, positioning itself as a means to unite the continent and divest it of its colonial ties. Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) served as the Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952-1957, when it became the first colonized African country to achieve independence, rechristening itself the Republic of Ghana. Nkrumah continued to serve first as prime minister and then as president of Ghana until 1966, when, his policies having become increasingly authoritarian,… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1964. Presentation copy signed by Kwame Nkrumah, the founding Prime Minister and President of Ghana, inscribed to his private secretary in blue ink on the front free endpaper, "To Erica with love from Kwame Nkrumah 16/12/65." vi, 122 pp. Specially bound for Nkrumah by The Book Company in Wiltshire, UK in full black calf stamped in gilt with a small Ghanian flag to the spine. Early printing of the first edition. Near Fine with a hint of foxing to edges, tiny scratch to rear board. A rare signed specially-bound association copy from the American-educated Ghanian politician who was a key figure in the 1960s pan-African, anticolonial, and socialist world movements. Provenance: from the collection of Erica Powell (1921-2007), a white Englishwoman who became an unlikely participant and eyewitness to the shaping of modern Africa. In the early 1950s Powell became the secretary to Nkrumah in the British Gold Coast. In 1957 Ghana became the first African country to win… Read More