Word: ghanaian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Awesome Recognition. After Flight 150 put down at Accra airport, the first hint of trouble came as a squad of Ghanaian security police, checking passports and looking for prospective political prisoners, strode up the aisle. With an awesome shriek, the West African enemies recognized one another. Some of the Guineans fastened their seat belts and howled with indignation; the Ghanaians unbuckled them in short order and trotted them off to prison, declaring that the Guinea delegation would be held as hostages until Guinea's President Sekou Toure repatriated "100 Ghanaians held against their will in Guinea...
Finally, Sekou Toure reluctantly released Ambassador Mcllvaine and offered to pay the air fare from Conakry to Accra of any Ghanaian who wanted to be repatriated. Toure knew well enough that few would take the offer: most of the Ghanaians in Conakry are members of Nkrumah's personal entourage who, in Accra, would face jail, a trial, and perhaps a firing squad. At week's end, Ghana's strongman, Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah flew off-via a Ghana Airways jet-to Addis Ababa to talk the whole thing over. After huddling with Emperor Haile Selassie, Liberia...
...statue [March 11] is a powerful commentary on the "eternal" influence of leaders. Shelley's 1817 poem "Ozymandias" describes a similar despot upon whose statue was engraved: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!" And, as with the Ghanaian, "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away...
...even more compelling motive for his return was revealed by his personal financial adviser, a Ghanaian business man named E. A. Ayeh Kumi. According to Kumi, Kwame had used his nine years as President to amass a fortune of "not less than $7,000,000," and most of the money was in Ghana. Part of the earnings had come from his printing company and two daily newspapers in Accra, but Nkrumah's biggest moneymaker was the National Development Corporation, which held a virtual monopoly on Ghana's import trade and was the only automobile insurance company that Ghanaian...
...nations gathered in Addis Ababa's Africa Hall than they fell to squabbling about Ghana's deposed Kwame Nkrumah, an advocate of direct African military action against the Rhodesians. Guinea, Mali, Tanzania and Egypt all stomped out of the conference when it was decided to seat a Ghanaian delegation representing the new Accra government. After that, Algeria, Somalia, Kenya and the Brazzaville Congo followed suit...