Word: ashantis
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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...
...only a matter of time before Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, 46, returned to President Kwame Nkrumah's Cabinet; he has all the qualifications. A squat, bombastic bully from Ashanti, Edusei was Nkrumah's eminence noire in the Cabinet until last April, when he was finally tossed out during one of Nkrumah's brief experiments in making his colleagues practice what he preaches...
...Gold. Throughout all this, the Queen serenely continued her tour. In the northern territories, tribal chiefs put on dazzling ceremonial durbars for the royal visitors. At Tamale, muscular, nearly nude warriors in bikini-brief grass skirts performed the End of the Harvest dance. The most spectacular ceremony was the Ashanti durbar laid on in Kumasi before 35,000 people, including some 150 major and minor chiefs. Host for the ritual was the Asantehene, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, King of Ashanti and the most important chief in all Ghana...
ARNOLD R. ISAACS '61 spent last summer in the Ashanti of Ghana as a participant in Operation Crossroads-Africa a research assistant in a study evaluating the participants' Recently, he participated in the Washington Con- on the Peace Corps. A History and Literature major, he Leverett House...
...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...