Word: karefa
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...Karefa-Smart began to protest, but another soldier put a hand on his soldier, and said, "Please don't argue, Doctor. We have orders to shoot you if you do." He went quietly...
...quite unceremonious," Karega-Smart recalls. His house was surrounded by soldiers, and one interrupted his family's dinner, and said, "Dr. Karefa-Smart, I have orders to take...
...Karefa-Smith returned to Sierra Leone and resigned all of his other posts to go into political life. With Sir Albert Margai, he organized the Sierra Leone People's Party, which eventually won Sierra Leone's independence from Britain in 1961. Over the next three years, he served in a variety of key positions: Foreign Minister, Minister of Defense, and Acting Prime Minister during Margai's frequent illnesses...
When Margai finally died in 1964, his brother, Sir Michael, took over the government by military force to avoid an election with Karefa-Smart. This placed Karefa-Smart in a delicate position. "When this brother pulled this fast one on us, I found I could not stay under those conditions," he says. "So I left the country. I remained a member of Parliment, but took a post at Columbia University because it would be safer...
...Karefa-Smart commuted from New York to sessions of Parliament four times a year until 1965, when new coups forced him to cut off all political contact with Sierra Leone. For the next five years, he served in Geneva as assistant director general of the World Health Organization, but continued to watch the political situation in Sierra Leone. In 1970, with power in the hands of an old political ally, Dr. Siaka Stevens, he reasoned that the time was right for him to return to Sierra Leone for good. Karefa-Smart smiles at his own innocence now when he says...