Word: appiah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brain. The Smith-Rusk marriage is like none of these: it resembles more closely the 1953 wedding of another Margaret known as Peggy, the daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer. His Peggy wed Joseph Appiah, son of an Ashanti chief and now a legal adviser to the Ghanian government. Britain took it without hysteria...
Nkrumah's chagrin was complete moments later as he escorted the royal visitors through the hospital. Unknown to Osagyefo, a patient (for a glandular disorder) in one of the wards was seven-year-old Kwame Appiah, son of recently jailed Nkrumah foe, Joe Appiah, and his wife Peggy, daughter of Britain's late Sir Stafford Cripps. Unaware of the boy's identity, the Queen greeted him perfunctorily, then moved on. But prominently displayed on the child's bedside table was a photograph of his father and grandmother, Lady Cripps. Suddenly realizing who the woman...
...their places. Then fortnight ago. he cracked down on leaders of a strike, jailing them summarily along with dozens of others who had dared to criticize the government. To prison went the respected Dr. J.B. Danquah, Nkrumah's own mentor in the original independence movement, and young Joe Appiah, a politician who is married to the daughter of Britain's late Sir Stafford Cripps. Peggy Cripps Appiah was ordered to leave the country immediately; later the government backtracked, announced it merely wanted to pay her way back to England if she and her children wanted to leave...