Critique of Political Decolonization

Critique of Political Decolonization challenges what, in normative scholarship, has become a persistent conflation of two different concepts: political decolonization and political independence.

This scholarly volume is an antinormative and critical refutation of the decolonial accomplishment of political independence or self-determination in Ghana.

It argues that political independence is insufficiently a decolonial claim because it is framed within the context of a country, where a permanent colonial settlement was never deemed necessary for the consolidation of future colonial political obligations.

Forjwuor offers new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual approaches to engaging the questions of colonialism, political independence, political decolonization, justice, and freedom, and constructs multiple conceptual bridges between traditional disciplinary fields of inquiry including politics, history, law, African studies, economic history, critical theory, and philosophy and political theory.

Using the Ghanaian experience as a rich case study, Forjwuor rethinks what colonialism and decolonization mean, and asserts that decolonization is primarily a question of justice.