Word: achimota
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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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...
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