‘9th May 2017 is OUR DAY’: The Homeland Study Group Foundation and contested national imaginaries in postindependence Ghana
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2022
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Nations and Nationalism
Abstract
Ghana has been held up as an oasis of stability in a highly
volatile region of Africa due to its peaceful decolonization
process, absence of serious civil conflict and successful
change of governments. However, in Ghana, as in parts of
post-independence Africa, there are lingering secessionist
movements that are a legacy of colonialism. The latest
comes from the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF)
which declared the former British Togoland, a former
United Nations trust territory administered by the
United Kingdom, as an independent state called Western
Togoland. Through the prism of competing or alternative
national imaginaries rather than the weak and dysfunctional
state paradigm, this article seeks to explain the roots of a
form of Togoland nationalism in Ghana in 1956
that remains relevant today. The paper argues that an
Apparently, successful integration can stimulate/give support to alternative nationalist imaginaries.
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British Togoland, postindependence Ghana, nationalism