Word: ghanaian
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...phrases and songs prescribed for the children to repeat or to sing.'' This was heresy indeed in Ghana, where Osagyefo's image is everywhere-on stamps and coins, on the big statue that carries the mocking motto: "Seek ye first the political kingdom.'' The Ghanaian Times, Nkrumah's party paper, promptly-denounced Roseveare and hinted that the bishop was running an arsenal for Nkrumah's enemies. This carried special significance since the attempt on Nkrumah's life three weeks ago had focused attention on every possible opponent...
...Ghanaian ambassador makes his rounds in Bonn, and sputtered: "Yesterday they didn't even wear shoes, and today they come to town in big cars and fancy clothes bought with our money, and ask us for more." Germany's tightfisted Finance Minister Heinz Starke objects that "vast sums of money have been wasted," vigorously presses for less government spending abroad, and more tax inducements to pump private capital abroad...
...ribbons and bandages of dueling fraternities sends a shiver up the spines of many Germans: the custom identifies so readily with Wehrwillen-the will to war. "These fools must be stopped," snaps one of the protesting professors. A less angry and even more telling criticism came recently from a Ghanaian student who discussed dueling on television. Pointing to his own tribal-scarred face, the Ghanaian remarked: "This isn't done in Africa any more, and frankly I can't understand why you still do it to each other in civilized Germany. It's primitive...
Saloon, lithe and limber Jamaican and Ghanaian girls nightly instruct votaries in a ritualistic, undulating "voodoo twist." Months after it began spraining sacroiliacs in the U.S., Britain and France, the twist has seized Germany...
...million loan to proCommunist, anti-Western President Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. The funds, which will pay for more than one-third of Ghana's huge Volta River hydroelectric and aluminum plant project (the rest will be provided by the World Bank, Britain and the Ghanaian government), were tentatively allocated last summer, then pigeonholed in the face of Nkrumah's flirtation with Moscow, along with his totalitarian persecution of political opponents at home...