Word: ewe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently Nkrumah figures on his neighbors' doing some surrendering too. Looking north, he saw that certain tribes in the Upper Volta Republic should remember their "common heritage" with Ghana and join up. To the east, he has used the sprawling Ewe tribe as a basis for suggesting that parts of Togoland, which becomes independent in April, be taken over as Ghana's "seventh province." To the west, where Ivory Coast's Premier Félix Houphouet-Boigny is having trouble with dissident Sanwi tribesmen, Nkrumah said he is "studying the possibilities of regrouping" the Sanwi people...
...Ewe. Graham's next stop: Ghana, where a 25-member committee of Protestant leaders has been working since September to prepare the Ghana crusade. Accra (pop. 208,000) had never seen anything like it. Under the leadership of Methodist Minister Peter Dagadu, volunteers had papered the city with thousands of posters, banners, handbills and hymn sheets. Four national newspapers carried ads: CALLING ALL CHRISTIANS-HEAR BILLY GRAHAM-ADMISSION FREE...