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...Kwei Armah, 28, is a young Ghanaian novelist whose heart breaks in a jerry-built hell of token down payments on infinite desires. The saving grace for readers is that Harvard-educated Armah is an artist right to his sizzling nerve ends. In this brilliant little novel, he takes the small, smoldering resentments of West Africa's perennially shortchanged people and explodes them into a crackling protest against the whole of human suffering...
...Nkrumah continues to broadcast to Ghana from exile in Guinea. Ghanaian police have raised the proffered reward for his capture from...
...carried by police. Caught in nearby Nigeria and flown to Accra on a Ghana air force plane, he was on his way to prison-and almost surely to death. The cage in which he rode had been especially designed and constructed to contain a greater prize: the erstwhile Ghanaian ruler, Kwame Nkrumah, who before his overthrow a year ago, called himself "the Christ of our day" and "the Conqueror of imperialism...
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...