CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 (Im)possible Necessities: Reading an African Formation in Contradiction 30
6. 2 Imperial Exchanges, Postimperial Reconfigurations: Africa in the Modern, the Modern in Africa 50
7. 3 “Worlding” Nativity: Early Gold Coast Culturalist Imperatives and Nationalist Initiatives 90
8. 4 On the Road to Ghana: Negotiations, Paradoxes, Pratfalls 145
9. 5 Faust in Africa: Genealogy of a “Messenger Class” 174
10. 6 Black Orpheus; or the (Modernist) Return of the Native: J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound 204
11. 7 Prometheus Unbound: Nkrumah’s Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah 248
12. Postscript Ethical Transnationalism, Postcolonialism, the Black Atlantic: Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa vis-à-vis the Contemporary Revisionisms 276
13. Abbreviated Titles 287
14. Notes 289
15. Bibliography 319
16. Index 337