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Last week Strongman Nkrumah was well enough to take his revenge. Out of office and into jail went three of Nkrumah's closest cronies: Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, Information Minister Tawia Adamafio, and Nkrumah's Party Boss H. H. Cofie-Crabbe...
Cassius, Ako Adjei, and the ideologically bankrupt, potbellied Cofie-Crabbe...
...many Ghanaians, the accusations had a hollow ring. Foreign Minister Adjei, 47, has been a staunch supporter of Nkrumah for years and is a leader of the moderate fringe, which occasionally has urged sense on Ghana's erratic leader. By contrast, Adamafio, 40, is a ruthless opportunist who clawed his way to the top on the strength of his anti-West, pro-Communist inclinations. His main public activity was to dream up new, adulatory names for Nkrumah; but for weeks, rumors of his plans to overthrow the Redeemer had swirled through Accra...
...mention cold war and all other conflicts among nations. But colonialism-except in its Communist form-is fast dying out, and the African nationalists have been growing desperate in their search for a replacement. Last week, before the U.N. General Assembly, Ghana's Foreign Minister Ako Adjei found one: neocolonialism. "The colonial powers," said Adjei, "realize that the time has come for them to concede independence to the African people. However, they try to use every device to deprive the new African states of the real substance and meaning of their national independence." How? "By such devices as military...
...Adjei spoke. President Kwame Nkrumah was courting U.S. aid money to finance a pet project that should keep Ghana under the yoke of colonialism for years to come: a $196 million dam and power plant to be built on the Volta River. (According to an Administration official. President Kennedy intends to send a mission to Accra "to rivet some things down" before approving the project.) Meanwhile, a 19-man Ghana delegation was heading for Russia-where Nkrumah himself had just paid a call-to wrap up economic and cultural agreements. Ghana was also preparing to invite a Soviet military mission...