Word: ghanaian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Nkrumah at his side, Philip moved gamely through a six-day round of sightseeing. At Accra's Nautical College, he had the appropriate words of praise for the new 150-man Ghanaian navy, which last week got its first craft-two British minesweepers. Resplendent in his white field marshal's uniform, Philip stopped off to present new Queen's colors to the trim Ghana regiment's 3rd Battalion; he also visited the headquarters of the air force, which now numbers 17 cadets. Politely, the duke inspected the ambitious new harbor project at Tema, 18 miles...
...satellite dams. They would generate 974,000 kw. (100 times as much as produced now in Ghana), back up a man-made lake that would equal the world's biggest (3,500 sq. mi.), which itself would create a new fishing industry to improve the protein-shy Ghanaian diet. Cost of dams, generating plants, power lines: $325 million...
...Meaning: Wednesday. Ghanaian children are traditionally named for the day of the week on which they are born. Kwame means Saturday...
...issue featuring a large front-page photograph captioned: "Our Indomitable Prime Minister and the founder of the new nation of Ghana, Osagyefo [Defender], Oyeadieyie [Does All Well], Kantamanto [Never Failing], Tufuhene Okyeade [Ever-Giving Leader]' Kukudrufo [Brave] Kwame Nkrumah!'' Presents poured in: sheep and food from Ghanaian farmers, a Piper Cub plane from Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion...
Cordon Rouge & Fat Mammies. At a banquet in State House, Prime Minister Nkrumah proposed a toast "To free Africa," raising a glass of Mumm's Cordon Rouge 1952 that had come straight from colonialist France. An orchestra struck up some Ghanaian calypso tunes, and at one point Nkrumah grabbed bemedaled President Tubman and whirled him about the dance floor. Next night the Prime Minister threw even a bigger party-a two-hour show for 50,000 people in the Accra stadium that featured tumblers, army drill teams and Accra's hip-swinging, fat "Mammy Traders...