The Global South & World Order Project at UCI presents, Socialist De-colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War Projects with Dr. Nana Osei-Opare, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Affiliated Faculty, Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University.
Chaired by Professor Felix Jean-Louis, UCI History
Author Biography:
Nana Osei-Opare is a historian of African, international, and Cold War histories. His first book, Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana’s Cold War (Cambridge, Nov. 2025), through the words of everyday people and the intellectual and political elite, tells a new history of Ghana’s Cold War, political-economic, and decolonization projects during the Kwame Nkrumah era by situating Ghana within larger Marxist, racial, and socialist debates and geographies. You can download the book for free via Open Access.
Co-sponsored by the Anthropology and History Department.