Word: kumasi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeking to save his skin and his stool, the Asantehene has been making overtures of friendship to Nkrumah. He issued a declaration transferring his allegiance from the political opposition to Nkrumah's CPP. Early this year, when Nkrumah made his first visit as Prime Minister of Ghana to Kumasi, the Ashanti capital, the Asantehene turned up at the airport under his tasseled umbrella, warmly embraced the Prime Minister...
...federation of Nyasaland and the two Rhodesias (where there are more white settlers), insisted that the Colonial Office continue to rule Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland until the two countries were ready for independence. When the federation went through, Banda sold his practice, moved to the Gold Coast, to Kumasi in the land of the Ashanti. There he became a friend of Kwame Nkrumah and an admirer of Ghana's fight for independence. Finally, this year, he decided that the time had come for him to go home and become a Nkrumah to his people...
Such methods roused a storm of anxious outcry among Britons who had most ardently urged Ghana's readiness to take its place in the British Commonwealth of Nations. But Nkrumah persisted, and last month was rewarded when his party gained a surprise majority in local elections in Kumasi, the traditional stronghold of Ashanti opposition. The chiefs' hold was broken, and Ghanaians appear to have accepted the change with no more than a murmur...
...Kumasi last week two wigged British barristers, both of them Queen's Counsels, fought a bitter battle before barelegged, toga-clad blacks to determine the right of the deported Moslems to return to Ghana. For Nkrumah's government, portly Attorney General Geoffrey Bing (TIME, Sept. 30) argued that Ghana's Parliament has "absolute and complete power to legislate on any subject whatever," and no court may review any act not specifically forbidden by the constitution...
...week's end the arguments still went on in Kumasi. The decision that British Justice H. C. Smith must render will go far to decide the meaning of law and liberty in Ghana...