TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘9th May 2017 is OUR DAY’
T2 - The Homeland Study Group Foundation and contested national imaginaries in postindependence Ghana
AU - Adotey, Edem
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - Ghana has been held up as an oasis of stability in a highly volatile region of Africa due to its peaceful decolonisation process, absence of serious civil conflict and successful change of governments. However, in Ghana as in parts of postindependence 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 events of 1956 that remains relevant today. The paper argues that an apparently successful integration can stimulate/give sustenance to alternative nationalist imaginaries.
AB - Ghana has been held up as an oasis of stability in a highly volatile region of Africa due to its peaceful decolonisation process, absence of serious civil conflict and successful change of governments. However, in Ghana as in parts of postindependence 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 events of 1956 that remains relevant today. The paper argues that an apparently successful integration can stimulate/give sustenance to alternative nationalist imaginaries.
KW - British Togoland
KW - Homeland Study Group Foundation
KW - nationalism
KW - postindependence Ghana
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123629215&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/nana.12810
DO - 10.1111/nana.12810
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123629215
SN - 1354-5078
VL - 28
SP - 662
EP - 679
JO - Nations and Nationalism
JF - Nations and Nationalism
IS - 2
ER -
