Word: danquah
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...people last week swarmed to the polls. Their object: 1) to vote for or against a new constitution which would change Ghana from a dominion to a republic; 2) to elect as President either Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 50, or his white-thatched rival, Dr. Joseph Danquah, 64, the present leader of the opposition United Party...
...Danquah, the recognized elder statesman of Ghana politics, was campaigning for independence when Nkrumah was still an unknown student studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Danquah, a lawyer trained at London's Inner Temple and a sociologist with several books to his credit, brought Kwame Nkrumah back to Ghana to become organizing secretary of the nationalist movement. Nkrumah promptly displaced Danquah as the nationalist leader and, over the years, has nearly decimated the United Party, whose seats in Parliament have dwindled from 32 to 13 through the imprisonment of some legislators and the expedient switch in allegiance of others...
...election was expected to be a walkover for Nkrumah. But the first returns showed that in some areas, Ghanaians were beginning to have qualms about their self-appointed "messiah." In the capital city of Accra, two of the city's wards rejected the proposed constitution and favored Danquah over Nkrumah. Even in his home constituency, Nkrumah got only 7,000 votes compared with his 1956 total...
...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...
...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...