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Title:Ghana: The Failure of a Petty-Bourgeois Experiment
Author:Ninsin, Kwame Akon
Year:1982
Periodical:Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907)
Volume:7
Issue:3
Period:July-September
Pages:37-67
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:coups d'état
1981
middle class
Economics and Trade
Development and Technology
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/43657734
Abstract:December 31, 1981, Ghana's People's National Party Government led by Dr. Hilla T.Limann was toppled in a coup d'etat and replaced by a Provisional National Defence Council led by FIt. Lt. J.J. Rawlings. Developments following its latest overthrow appear to suggest the end to attempts since 1966 to rebuild and consolidate the petty-bourgeois social order. This suggestion does not grasp and expose, present-ting December 31 as if it were a historical aberration, the historical affinity between the event of December 31 and its predecessors. The author attempts to show that 1) the coup of December 31, 1981, was possible because by then the petty-bourgeois state had been weakened by its own internal contradictions, and 2) these contradictions had been sharpened the more since 1966 through the persistent mediation of the petty-bourgeois state which is an affirmation of its historic role of facilitating the domination of the national economy by imperialism. Notes, ref., sum. in French, tab.
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