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...came while Nkrumah was flying toward Peking on a self-appointed, self-inflated peace mission. Like the Nigerian coup six weeks earlier, it was led by Sandhurst-trained officers who knew precisely what they were doing. At 4:30 a.m. in the predawn darkness of Accra, two brigades of Ghanaian troops quietly took over the airport, the cable office, all government ministries and the government radio station. While early-morning market mammies stared, Jeeploads of soldiers moved into the suburban gardens of government Ministers and tanks deployed around Nkrumah's presidential compound itself...
White Handkerchiefs. There was little resistance. Nkrumah's presidential guard, dug in behind the four concentric walls surrounding the compound, held out for several hours; but by noon, downtown Accra was jammed with jubilant Ghanaians, dancing in the streets, cheering, singing, many of them wearing white handkerchiefs around their heads and white clay on their faces as a token of victory. "Fellow citizens," announced Colonel E. K. Kotoka, one of the coup leaders, in a broadcast over Radio Ghana, "I have come to inform you that the military, with the cooperation of the police, have taken over the government...
Following the rebels' seizure of power thousands of Ghanians poured into the streets of Accra--dancing, drinking, and merrymaking. They destroyed statues labeled "founder of the country" that Nkrumah had erected to himself...
...depart. The club's living quarters were not even filled; most diplomats preferred the bustling Aletti Hotel downtown, or the St. George, where the frug and the monkey were nightly attractions. By midweek everyone was gone. With the fading of jet contrails heading toward Bangkok and Baghdad, Accra and Ankara, the spirit of Bandung II passed into history...
...with the rebellion finally quelled and Tshombe forced out of office last month, President Joseph Kasavubu figured it was time to bring his neighborly relations back to normal. His first step came at the African "summit" meeting at Accra, where he neatly buried the hatchet with such neighbors as Tanzania and the Sudan, which had also supported the rebels. Last week, after hours of "pleasant" conversation in Leopoldville, Brazzaville's Ganao succumbed to the Kasavubu treatment as well. The two Congos agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and restore the permanent ferry service that had once linked their...