Nana Osei-Opare
Historian of Ghana and Black internationalisms who teaches history and African-American studies at Rice University; author of Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War (Cambridge UP, 2025).
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Mar 25, 2026 • 48min
Nana Osei-Opare, "Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Nana Osei-Opare, historian of Ghana and Black internationalisms at Rice University, discusses his book on Ghana’s 1957 independence and Black socialist experiments. He traces Ghana–Soviet entanglements, everyday racism in the Eastern Bloc, and how ordinary Ghanaians shaped diplomacy. Short, vivid stories reveal contested transnational spaces, wartime legacies, and grassroots claims on state power.
Mar 24, 2026 • 48min
Nana Osei-Opare, "Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Nana Osei-Opare, historian and author exploring Ghanaian and Black internationalist history. He traces Ghana’s 1957 independence as a Black socialist experiment. The conversation highlights Ghana–Soviet interactions, everyday racism faced by Ghanaians in the Eastern Bloc, contested development projects, petitions shaping diplomacy, and archival detective work across multiple countries.
