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- W3199133550 abstract "Batakari, also called fugu, is a type of tunic/smock woven from narrow, hand-spun strips of cotton. On 5th March 1957, the eve of Ghana's Independence from Britain, Prime-Minister Elect Kwame Nkrumah wore batakari over a short sleeve shirt with a white kufi cap for his address to the last session of the colonial Legislative Assembly at the Parliament House. He continued to wear it in the ensuing cheers as Ghana's new flag replaced the Union Jack, and later that night when he declared Independence in a rousing speech across from Parliament House. For one so attuned to political symbolism, what meaning did Nkrumah express by donning batakari on Independence Day? I ask this with appreciation that spectacle, the dramatic, and/or the theatrical are integral to politics; that politics meets performance when political actions have a creative-symbolic dimension; and that dress is a way in which political power is represented, constituted, articulated and/or contested. In exploring this question, my focus is on the body political--on bodily praxis as political praxis. I examine the social history of batakari, including Nkrumah's use of it during his involvement in the anti-colonial struggle and through up to Ghana's independence. I argue that Nkrumah, a principal signifier in the public construction of meaning at Independence, exploited symbolic opportunities in celebration to legitimate his leadership over the new sovereign Ghana, and that he did this by reconstructing the populist, culturally shared, connections between legitimacy and dress in what I call his sartorial politics." @default.
- W3199133550 created "2021-09-27" @default.
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- W3199133550 date "2015-01-01" @default.
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- W3199133550 title "What is in a Dress: Nkrumah, Populism and the Sartorial Politics of Legitimation at Ghana's Independence" @default.
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