Word: ashantis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcing a new bill, not yet passed, that called for a heavy fine and imprisonment on any mine operator who closed down without his permission. To mine owners, this looked like the first step toward nationalization and brought an immediate outcry. Major General Sir Edward L. Spears, chairman of Ashanti Goldfields Corp., Ltd., one of Ghana's prosperous mines, and also chairman of Bibiani ( 1927 ) Ltd., one of the marginal mines, warned Nkrumah that if he does not make it clear that he was not trying "to seize the mines without adequate compensation, no more outside capital will come...
Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was resisted every inch of the way by the Ashanti chiefs who clearly foresaw the loss of their power in a single nation run from Accra. In Nigeria, the ancient feud between the Yoruba of the west and the Ibo of the east, and their joint contempt for the Moslems in the north, is a major obstacle to peaceful nationhood. Kenya's warlike Masai dread the thought of national power in the hands of the clever Kikuyu; and for the majestic (6 ft. 6 in.) but backward Watutsi of Ruanda-Urundi, education...
...over. Nkrumah's hard-fisted Transport Minister Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei stormed into one United Party headquarters and. when he saw the Prime Minister's picture hung upside down with pins stuck in its eyes, ordered that a beating be administered to the man responsible. In an Ashanti district toured by Edusei. Nkrumah got 22.000 votes, although the total vote of the constituency had never before topped...