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Both impressed and appalled by the wild acclaim that Ghana's people gave the Queen, Nkrumah and his advisers were toning down a violently anti-British White Paper that accused British interests of fomenting and financing rebellion against the Ghanaian government. But criticism of the "foreign press conspiracy" reached fever pitch. Ousted from Ghana for "false, tendentious and obnoxious" reports were two British journalists.* Their crime: stating the obvious fact that Ghana is drifting toward an oppressive, Red-lining dictatorship...
...same time, Osagyefo supervised the drafting of a new education act that would give the state firm control over all Ghanaian education. Under the provisions of the new bill (which is certain to pass the rubber-stamp Parliament), government-appointed school board governors will exercise censorship over textbooks and teaching methods so that they hew closely to the government's chosen line. Even Nkrumah's leftist neighbor, Guinea's Sekou Touré, was put off by this action. Refusing to come to Accra for the installation of Nkrumah, Touré said to a visitor: "Who ever heard...
...first, many Ghanaians were suspicious of the Peace Corpsmen. But most have since come around handsomely. At Tafo, natives wanted to make Barnett Chessin. 23. a tribal subchief in gratitude for his contributions to town life. In Dodowa, one of the few school districts with no faculty apartments, the local chief volunteered to share his own modern home to accommodate Peace Corps Teacher Thomas Livingston. Ghanaian students, used to the magisterial ways of British-trained masters, have responded well to Peace Corps teaching. Says Martin Larbi of Accra's La Bone Secondary School: "They're better than...
...Prince Philip to an all-day march past in Black Star Square. Osagyefo ordered his army to keep its Soviet equipment under wraps, treated the Queen to an essentially British military show. At the national welcoming ceremony, more than 100,000 people jammed the square; only one other Ghanaian crowd had ever approached the strength of the throng-not for Osagyefo, but for Satchmo Louis Armstrong...
...tropical heat, the massed marchers, representing 39 Ghanaian organizations, wilted by the score; stretcher-bearers darted back and forth between the ranks lugging out casualties. The show was stolen by the antics of hundreds of marching market mammies, clad in colorful, wraparound calico dresses and gaily colored turbans. As they began to step out, the band switched from Sousa marches to jazzy, Ghanaian High Life numbers. Swinging their enormous hips in rhythm to the music, the mammies pranced, jigged and jived by the broadly smiling Queen while Prince Philip bent double and slapped his knee in laughter...