Critique of Political Decolonization

Abstract

Bernard Forjwuor provides an original critique of the existing decolonial studies literature, using the case of Ghana in Critique of Political Decolonization. The book is a modified version of his dissertation and evaluates the concept of political decolonization in Ghana. The book is divided into seven chapters, and the introductory chapter begins with many questions about concepts such as decolonization, freedom, independence, and justice. These are all broad questions that deserve in-depth research to answer. Forjwuor discusses Ghana’s political independence from Britain and questions the continuity of colonialism in the country. He also criticizes liberal democracy as a concept, liberal democracies, and their “legitimate” plundering and exploitation of African resources after the Berlin Conference of 1884–85. The methodological approach of the book is based on theoretical and genealogical grounds, which is what Michel Foucault called the “history of the present,” and its epistemological approach is post-positivist. He critically reexamines Ghana’s independence and liberation, predicated on liberal democracy.