The People and the Leader 76

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note vii Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION | Ghana and the Worlds of C. L. R. James Leslie James xi

Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution

Part I

Part II INTRODUCTION | 1977 Edition 5

1 The Myth 23 2 The Masses Set the Stage 33 3 The People in 1947 41 4 The Revolution in Theory 50 5 The Men on the Spot 65 6 The People and the Leader 76 7 Positive Action 104 8 The Party under Fire 113 9 The Tip of the Iceberg 124

1 Government and Party 135 2 1962: Twenty Years After 149 3 Slippery Descent 152 4 Lenin and the Problem 158 5 “ . . . Always out of Africa” 179