Word: adamafio
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...among the most politically educated section of party leadership [to] become educators of broad masses, especially of our illiterate comrades," Nkrumah has called them), the audience shouted Nkrumah's slogans, and Ghana "market mammies" performed tribal dances. A pile of copies of TIME was set ablaze, and Tawia Adamafio, the new secretary-general of the party, cried, "TIME is a dirty, filthy paper, bankrupt mentally, fit to be kept in the toilet or pushed into the limbo of degradation." Adamafio warned: "If this happens again, we shall hold demonstrations, and we know the embassy to which we shall march...
...world is his." Added N. A. Welbeck, Nkrumah's Minister with Special Duties: "Mboya is an imp not fit to lick Nkrumah's boots . . . Nkrumah is a consuming fire. Anybody who tries to destroy him will be destroyed first." Everyone knows, concluded Party Secretary Adamafio, that "Nkrumah is a superman, master and god on his own scene. America had its Lincoln, Russia its Lenin, Britain its Nelson. Nkrumah...