Word: ghanaian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club is considering the endowment of an annual lecture in honor of William E. B. DuBois '90, famous historian and the first Negro to receive a Ph.D. from the University. DuBois died a Ghanaian citizen last Aug. 27 in Accra...
Since 1958 Nkrumah has wielded a law allowing his government to lock up any Ghanaian without trial for five years, merely by charging that the activities of the accused might prejudice national defense, relations with other countries or security. Last week the Accra Parliament shouted through an amendment authorizing the President to extend for an additional five years the detention period of anyone held under the original act. The amendment is believed aimed at 40-odd opposition leaders who have been in prison since November 1958, accused (but never convicted) of conspiring to assassinate government ministers and to poison...
Lisa's next target was Fidel Castro. For nearly a year she wrote to him through neutral embassies, slipped a letter to Fidel into the hands of Anastas Mikoyan, and persuaded miscellaneous ministers and ambassadors to ask Castro to see her. Finally her friend Alex Quaison-Sackey, Ghanaian Ambassador to Cuba and the U.N., helped get Lisa a visa. She stayed in Cuba four weeks, kept pelleting Castro with the pleas of her contacts. Castro succumbed, spent eight hours talking privately with her, and recorded a 40-minute interview after that...
Once, only professionals risked their money at the perilous pastime of making such esoteric guesses as how many potatoes would bud, the quality of hog bellies, the size of the soybean crop, and the number of cocoa beans on Ghanaian trees. But after tasting quick profits with the glamour stocks of the 1950s, thousands of amateurs-from house wives to retired mailmen-are trying for even quicker profits in the fitful, fickle commodity futures. Sales on the Chicago exchange have risen 80% in three years. Most often the amateurs lose, but the tales of what might have been keep them...
...more segregation than brotherhood, more indoctrination than education. After the riot, Ghana's ambassador lodged a strong protest with the Bulgarian government, and just about all of the Africans in Sofia decided to pack up and seek education elsewhere. "We have been insulted in every possible way," said Ghanaian Agricultural Student Robert Kotey as he arrived in Vienna. "We were molested in the streets, called 'black monkeys' and 'jungle people,' and people used to spit out before us on buses and trains." Concluded Ghanaian Economics Student Kofi Buckle: "We soon realized that to study...