This is an excellent discussion by David Wengrow on how much of what we think about as "early states" (i.e. very ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Central America) appears to depend on very common yet incorrect assumptions: rigid hierarchical institutionalized leadership, pretty much the definition of a 'state', has been assumed, but evidence for this is lacking.

#Archaeology #StateFormation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkZhsMTAFts

This is an excellent discussion by David Wengrow on how much of what we think about as "early states" (i.e. very ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Central America) appears to depend on very common yet incorrect assumptions: rigid hierarchical institutionalized leadership, pretty much the definition of a 'state', has been assumed, but evidence for this is lacking.

#Archaeology #StateFormation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkZhsMTAFts

https://archive.org/details/nkrumahs-ghana

The Military and Politics in Nkrumah's Ghana by Simon Baynham

Topics
#Ghana, #military, #coups, #militarycoups, #britishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #Africanization, #stateformation, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #neocolonialism, #WestAfrica, #coupdetat, #golpedelestado

“The book is based on documents from the Ministry of Defence and other departments in Ghana and on interviews with 96 Ghanaian and British army officers, civil servants, and politicians.”