Word: achimota
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Little Old Woman. Next afternoon the Armstrong crew held a "cultural exchange" on the Achimota college lawn with some 500 tribesmen, dancers and drummers. After a diplomatic round of palm wine and a furious round of tribal dances, the All-Stars took their turn. Africans received the jazz coolly until Royal Garden Blues stirred them up, and soon 30-odd tribesmen were doing jivey steps to the riffs. "Did you see that little old plump woman?" said Louis later. "When she danced, man, she was just like toy mother Mary...
...born at the jungle's edge in the mud-hut village of Nkroful, where his father, a Twi (pronounced Twee) tribesman, hammered out gold ornaments for local woodcutters. A Catholic mission taught him the three Rs, and the Fathers sent him up to the Gold Coast's Achimota College. Achi-mota crackles with black & white brains (its crest is a piano keyboard, with black & white keys playing together in harmony). Nkrumah graduated (in 1931) with an itch to teach...
Husky and handsome, he was born in a primitive jungle hamlet, raised in the bush. He won scholarships to Achimota College, the Gold Coast's "Eton," was sent to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania to study religion and anthropology. Back in the Gold Coast in 1950, Nkrumah quickly gained power in the anticolonial Convention People's Party, became the most powerful African in the colony when his party swept 31 out of the 38 elective seats in last year's election...
Nkrumah's appointment as Prime Minister is far from a proclamation of the Gold Coast independence. The Colonial Office in London still controls finance, defense and justice. But, like the famous piano keyboard crest displayed outside the Gold Coast's Achimota School, his appointment is designed to show that black & white can work in harmony...
| 1 |