Kwame Nkrumah: A Case Study of Religion and Politics in Ghana

This article looks at the role of religion in politics. Northern Ireland provides not only a good case study for this issue but also an opportunity to see how the subject has been approached in academic literature over the last forty years. It is argued here that religion can be a modern day, independent factor of considerable influence in politics. This has been important not only in Northern Ireland but also elsewhere in Western Europe in the twentieth century. This reality has been largely ignored until recently, partly because the situation in Northern Ireland has often been studied in a limited comparative context, and partly because of restrictive intellectual assumptions about the role of religion in politics.

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Existential phenomenology of religious liberty and security in religion and politics: A case study of Nigeria

Philosophical Papers and Review ◽

10.5897/ppr2019.0163 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 10-19

Author(s):

Dukor Maduabuchi

Keyword(s):

Religion And Politics ◽

Religious Liberty ◽

Existential Phenomenology

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“We must unite now or perish!”

Journal of Language and Politics ◽

10.1075/jlp.17051.nar ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 252-271 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mark Nartey

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Historical Approach ◽

Discursive Strategies ◽

Kwame Nkrumah ◽

Pan African ◽

The World ◽

Discourse Historical Approach

Abstract This paper presents a discourse-mythological analysis of the rhetoric of a pioneering Pan-African and Ghana’s independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, drawing on Ruth Wodak’s discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis. The thesis of the paper is that Nkrumah’s discourse, in its focus on the emancipation and unification of Africa, can be characterized as mythic, a discursive exhortation of Africa to demonstrate to the world that it can better govern itself than the colonizers. In this vein, the paper analyzes four discursive strategies employed by Nkrumah in the creation and projection of his mythology: the introduction or creation of new discourse events, presupposition and implication, involvement (the use of indexicals) and lexical structuring and reiteration. This study is, therefore, presented as a case study of mythic discourse within the domain of politics.

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