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- Title
Image Under Fire: West German Development Aid and the Ghana Press War, 1960–1966.
- Authors
Weigel, John Wesley
- Abstract
During the 1960s, development aid helped West Germany project a benign image while it discouraged diplomatic recognition of East Germany. In Ghana, however, this effort clashed with the Pan-Africanist aims of President Kwame Nkrumah. Four periodicals under his control attacked West Germany as neo-colonialist, militarist, racist, latently Nazi and a danger to world peace. West German officials resented this campaign and tried to make it stop, but none of their tactics, not even vague threats to aid, worked for long. The attacks ended with Nkrumah's overthrow in early 1966, but while they lasted, they demonstrated that a small state receiving aid could use the press to invert its asymmetric political relationship with the donor.
- Subjects
GERMANY (West); RECOGNITION (International law); PAN-Africanism; PERIODICALS; MILITARIZATION of police
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2022, Vol 31, Issue 2, p259
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777321000102