This paper critically explores how an African independence leader uses his language to simultaneously construct heroes and villains, protagonists and antagonists forming part of an ideological mechanism that realizes an anti‐imperialist rhetoric and a discourse of resistance. It combines discourse‐historical analysis with discourse‐mythological analysis to examine a number of speeches delivered by Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan‐Africanist and Ghana's independence leader. The analysis demonstrates that archetypal traits of mythological heroism in Nkrumah's discourse are constructed through his identification of a ‘conspiratorial enemy’ and his sculpting of identities such as a ‘valiant leader’ and a ‘noble revolutionary’. The analysis also reveals that Nkrumah's language has identifiable features of Ghanaian English, including the use of Ghanaianisms, coinages/neologism, and idiomatic expressions, that helped him to (emotionally) connect with his audience and strengthen the persuasive impact of his speeches.

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夸梅·恩克鲁玛（Kwame Nkrumah）话语中的神话英雄主义

本文批判性地探索了非洲独立领导人如何用他的语言同时构建英雄和恶棍，主角和反对派，构成实现反帝国主义言论和反抗话语的意识形态机制的一部分。它将话语历史分析与话语神话分析相结合，以研究先驱泛非主义者和加纳独立领导人夸梅·恩克鲁玛（Kwame Nkrumah）发表的许多演讲。分析表明，恩克鲁玛话语中神话英雄主义的原型特征是通过他对“阴谋敌人”的识别和对诸如“英勇的领导者”和“高贵的革命者”等身份的雕刻而构建的。分析还表明，恩克鲁玛的语言具有加纳英语的明显特征，