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Past the modern new general hospital building in the central Ghana town of Kumasi last week drove a sound truck blaring: "The man is coming. The light of Africa will soon arrive." But Africa's light, Kwame Nkrumah, got a low-candlepower reception from hospital staff and patients as he awaited his guests, Britain's touring Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip. The silence that surrounded Osagyefo (The Redeemer) was broken only when the royal pair arrived, to a loud burst of applause...
...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 our other foreign teachers." Enthuses Nadio Baako. a student in Kumasi: "It's like a fresh wind off the sea, having these teachers...
...cities and villages of Ghana and Nigeria, his name leaped forth from billboard, newspaper and radio. Whenever he arrived in a city-in Accra, Kano, Ibadan, Kumasi, Lagos and Enugu-huge crowds turned out to cheer him, including the "all-powerful" King of the Ashantis, King Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. The object of all this adulation was U.S. Trumpet Ace Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, on a gravelly-voiced West African tour last week designed to persuade Africans to drink more Pepsi-Cola. Admission fee to the outdoor concerts by Satchmo and his six All-Stars: five Pepsi-Cola bottle...
...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...