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SUMMARY:Marching with the Times: Numbers and Temporalities in 1960s Ghana 
  - Gerardo Serra (University of Manchester)
DTSTART:20200218T173000Z
DTEND:20200218T190000Z
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CONTACT:Gareth Austin
DESCRIPTION:An important part of the discourse built by the first generati
 on of African postcolonial leaders revolved around the ‘acceleration of 
 history’. As the first colony in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence
  from British rule\, on 6th March 1957\, Ghana came to incarnate the whole
  continent’s hopes of economic\, political and social transformation. \n
 \nThis paper looks at how numbers accompanied and shaped the new nation’
 s ‘march with the times’. It does so by interrogating the role of plan
 ning and accounting in shaping the political iconography of 1960s Ghana. I
 n particular\, I suggest that these tools (and the numbers contained in th
 em) did not simply inform and support practices of economic management. In
 stead\, they contributed to the construction of alternative versions of po
 stcolonial utopianism. \n\nThe focus is on the last six years of Nkrumah
 ’s government\, until he was overthrown by a military coup d’état in 
 1966\, and on the brief experience of the National Liberation Council\, th
 e military junta that ruled over Ghana between 1966 and 1969. 
LOCATION:King's College\, Audit Room
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