Word: gbedemah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear that only two of the original 15 registered parties had a chance. One was the Progress Party headed by Busia, 55, a sociology professor who spent much of the Nkrumah era in voluntary exile. The other was the National Alliance of Liberals (N.A.L.), led by Komla A. Gbedemah, 56, who was Nkrumah's Finance Minister until the Redeemer turned against him and forced him into exile in 1961. Sophisticated poll watchers expected a close battle. Not the local soothsayers; Busia's first name, after all, means "Friday's Child" in the Akan language, and the voting...
...lots. A major reason for Busia's over whelming majority was that both par ties appealed for tribal support - and got it. The Akans, among whom Busia is a royal prince, are four times as nu merous in Ghana as the Ewe tribe, to which his adversary Gbedemah belongs...
...Ticket. Hardly was he back from a good-will visit to Moscow in September when the ominous chain of events began. First he purged his Cabinet of some moderates who had been his main stay, notably the eminent Finance Minister K. A. Gbedemah. installed radical leftists in their places. Then fortnight ago. he cracked down on leaders of a strike, jailing them summarily along with dozens of others who had dared to criticize the government. To prison went the respected Dr. J.B. Danquah, Nkrumah's own mentor in the original independence movement, and young Joe Appiah, a politician...
Also dismissed were the British chiefs of Ghana's small navy and air force and seven moderate government officials, including Health Minister K. A. Gbedemah, who helped Nkrumah found his Convention Peoples' Party and is probably the ablest man in the Cabinet...
...leftists, who struggle constantly to oust Cabinet moderates like seasoned Finance Minister Komla Gbedemah, derive most of their power from positions in the ruling Convention People's Party, which Founder Nkrumah has neglected as his official presidential duties increased. Sensing a squeeze, Osagyefo this month announced that he personally, was taking over the party's top job. Now he could plunge ahead with the main goal: "I see before my mind's eye," he declared resoundingly, "a great monolithic party . . . united and strong, spreading its protective wings over the whole of Africa from Algiers in the north...