Word: accra
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...Liberian capital of Monrovia, Flight 150 took on a party of dapper, dark-suited Guineans - Foreign Minister Louis Beavogui, three aides and 15 "students" bound for a conference of African foreign ministers in Ethiopia. Apparently they were not aware that an interim stop would put them down briefly at Accra, capital of Ghana. Otherwise, they might have traveled another route. After all, since last February, when Kwame Nkrumah was ousted by a military coup and took refuge in Guinea, the two nations have been the bitterest of enemies...
...Accra, Algiers, Amsterdam, Bagdad, Bamako, Brussels, Colombo, Conakry, Copenhagen, Damascus, Djakarta, Helsinki, Kabul, Karachi, London, New Delhi, Nicosia, Paris, Rabat, Rangoon, Rome, Stockholm, Teheran, Tunis and Vienna...
...Bird. Nkrumah continued to talk bravely throughout the week about returning triumphantly to Accra. No one believed him, of course, but there were plenty of reasons-apart from wanting his Redeemer's job back -to bring Kwame home. One of them was a lissome mulatto girl who, Ghanaian police last week announced, was Nkrumah's mistress. Her name was Genoveva Marais, and she had been Kwame's playmate on weekends at his country estate. To keep her happy, he had given her a job at Ghana Television and bought her a red Thunderbird convertible...
...Ayeh Kumi. According to Kumi, Kwame had used his nine years as President to amass a fortune of "not less than $7,000,000," and most of the money was in Ghana. Part of the earnings had come from his printing company and two daily newspapers in Accra, but Nkrumah's biggest moneymaker was the National Development Corporation, which held a virtual monopoly on Ghana's import trade and was the only automobile insurance company that Ghanaian civil servants were allowed to use. Unless he could get his hands on the money, Nkrumah might quickly starve to death...
...Africa Hall than they fell to squabbling about Ghana's deposed Kwame Nkrumah, an advocate of direct African military action against the Rhodesians. Guinea, Mali, Tanzania and Egypt all stomped out of the conference when it was decided to seat a Ghanaian delegation representing the new Accra government. After that, Algeria, Somalia, Kenya and the Brazzaville Congo followed suit...