Word: ashantis
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...infant African nation of Ghana began life with high hopes that Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and his ruling party would show enough statesmanship to win the cooperation of the minorities in Ashanti and the Northern Territories. But the richer, more highly educated Ashantis, controlling the country's one big cash crop (cocoa), have agitated so articulately for upcountry rights that Nkrumah's less literate supporters, unable to talk them down, have resorted to highhanded repression. By the most arbitrary of these measures the government deported two Ashanti Moslem leaders on the ground that their presence was "not conducive...
...dispute in the dusty Ashanti capital touched a crucial Commonwealth question, a question of which Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies observed recently: "Perhaps we do not always understand that 'the rule of law' and 'the rule of Parliament' can be separately stated in words but are not easily separated in fact. Self-government is not only a political conception. It is a legal conception. In short, I don't believe there can be any form of parliamentary self-government without a recognition of the rule...
...maverick Ashanti who began his career combining debt collecting with newspaper reporting, Edusei got into politics, and did even better. He was named in two corruption investigations, and after one was forced out of Nkrumah's Cabinet. He is back in favor now as Nkrumah's key subordinate, enjoying power and living it up with two wives, one of whom proudly boasts of the $200 dresses and $45 shoes that Edusei gives...
...that he was asked to practice democracy instead of demanding it, Nkrumah seemed a little less in favor of it. Faced with opposition to his rule from back-country Ashanti tribesmen, Nkrumah tried to deport two of their leaders even though they were Ghana citizens. Challenged in court for such behavior, he rushed a special law through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) to expel the two. When Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen...
...erstwhile idolatrous biographer, Journalist Bankole Timothy, who had been taking jabs at the Premier in Accra's British-owned Daily Graphic. Since Timothy was born in Sierra Leone, it was possible to expel him. The Minister of Information refused to specify the charges against the other two, Ashanti leaders of the Moslem Association Party, "since then they could challenge them." When they appealed to the courts to prevent their deportation, Nkrumah rushed through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) a special bill authorizing their immediate expulsion, even though they were citizens of Ghana. Within two hours they...