Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, ‘Fashioning Cultural Policy and Transnational Projects in Post-Independent Ghana: The Case of the Arts Council of Ghana’

Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch is an associate professor of African history at Dartmouth. This paper explores the development of cultural organizations in Ghana’s post-independence era. It highlights the ways in which civil society organizations in the cultural realm– such as the Arts Council of Ghana–became alternative sites for Ghanaians to envision the development of the nation’s cultural and intellectual life, while engaging with international bodies through shared cultural projects despite the volatile political and economic climate of the 1960s-1980s. Sackeyfio-Lenoch utilizes previously unused archival records to trace the development of cultural projects and the goals of the Arts Council of Ghana during the transformative era of post-independence Africa.

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