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Long before Britain set Ghana free, the proud, separatist-minded Ashanti tribesmen who make up about 20% of Ghana's population were implacably opposed to Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party. Instead of treading softly in the face of this opposition, Nkrumah decided to live it up as the first black ever to become a Prime Minister in the Commonwealth. He evicted Britain's Governor General from 296-year-old Christianborg Castle, and moved in himself. He put his head on Ghana's stamps, announced his intention of putting it on the country...
...papers in the air and shouted "Ghana! Ghana!"-the name of an ancient West African black empire which Nkrumah has chosen for the new state (TIME, July 30). Then the Nkrumah supporters broke into their party's battle song, Victory for Us. Men representing the country's Ashanti and Northern Territories opposition sat silent. Their acting leader said, however, that his side welcomed the announcement, and next day the opposition parties agreed to join Nkrumah in working out a new constitution reconciling their "regional aspirations" with his centralizing policy. The British were delighted. Having decided...
Through the four weeks of campaigning, tensions heightened. Nkrumah's opposition stumped upcountry Ashanti and the Northern Territories. The Territories, on the edge of the Sahara, are mostly Moslem; the center region of Ashanti is run by tribal chieftains who recognize that the city slickers down in the capital of Accra threaten ancient tribal ways. The new N.L.M. party talked up a federal system with decentralized powers. The Gold Coast is only about as big as Nebraska, however, with only 4,500,000 people, and Nkrumah argued that "regionalism must not replace nationalism...
...Graduate-an inestimable political advantage in a British colony) soon drowned out all others with loudspeaker-car cries, to a calypso-style rhythm, of "FREEDOM, NKROO-MAH, FREEDOM, NKROO-MAH." When the votes were counted, Nkrumah got 71 seats out of 104. Despite the loss of ten seats in Ashanti he had got his "reasonable majority...
Born. To Enid Margaret ("Peggy") Cripps Appiah, 33, youngest daughter of the late Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain's austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Joseph Manuel Appiah, 33, Ashanti law student and personal representative in Britain of the Africa Gold Coast's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah: their first child, a son; in London. Weight: 8 lbs. 8 oz. Name: Kwame...