Word: danquah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than half the seats in the new 104-man Parliament. Nkrumah's bitterest opponent, Dr. Joseph Danquah, failed to win a seat. At this unhappy news his supporters wept and rolled on the ground. Dr. Danquah's former wife, now an ardent Nkrumah partisan, was the only woman elected to Parliament...
Gold Coast leaders were stunned. Dr. James B. Danquah, the portly boss of U.G.C.C., frankly admitted that "it took India 25 years to gain what we are about to gain in less than two years." But Kwame Nkrumah was not satisfied. Boring from within (a technique he probably learned from London's Marxists), he enticed the younger members of U.G.C.C. into a secret "Circle" of his own. Danquah and the moderates had called for "self-government in our time"; Nkrumah went one better: "Self-Government...
...Nkrumah broke with Danquah at an open-air meeting in the village of Saltpond. It was not his own idea. His "young men" threatened to ditch him if he did not grab the leadership from Danquah's "fuddy-duddies." Nkrumah got scared. He leaped on to a table and shefuted, "My life is in danger ... If I refuse to lead them, they will kill me!" At that, a girl disciple jumped up alongside him and started singing Lead, Kindly Light. The audience joined in, and Nkrumah suddenly knew that his hour had struck. His Convention People's Party...