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Worldmaking after Empire with Adom Getachew

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The Anxiety of Formal Decolonization

In 19 57, quamen kruma announced gana's independence and ending its time as the british colony of the gold coast. What nakrumo wanted wasn't just independence defined in the liberal terms of not non interference, but independence in the republican sense of non nation. In the caribbean, eric williams, who became the first prime minister of trinidad and tobago after having published the classic work, capitalism and slavery,. He pushed for federated government there in the caribbeans. And ten west indian states initially were members of a west indian federation in africa.

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