Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike their U.S.-educated Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, few citizens of the new State of Ghana have been anywhere-even to school. They may not be aware of the hue and cry abroad at the way Ghana's government has been trampling on civil rights (TIME, Sept. 30), but Nkrumah is. Last week he tactfully gave ground. A lawyer down from London was allowed to challenge the expulsion of two Moslem opposition leaders. Contempt-of-court charges against a British newspaperman were dropped. Nkrumah pleaded for international sympathy: "Do not apply to us standards of conduct and efficiency which...
Ghana's motto, writ large on the gleaming white Independence Arch that overlooks the Atlantic in Accra, is "Freedom and Justice." Last week, scarcely six months after Ghana, under Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah (Lincoln University, Pa. '39), became a free nation amid high hopes, both freedom and justice seemed to be in retreat...
...Ghana's independence celebrations, last week let out an anguished cry of betrayal: "What evil genius has gained the ear of the Prime Minister of Ghana? His friends in Britain are shocked to find Ghana adopting some of the worst practices of colonial rule. This is not Kwame Nkrumah. I beg him to free himself of his advisers...
Nearly six months ago, when U.S.-educated (Pennsylvania's Lincoln University) Kwame Nkrumah joyously proclaimed "Ghana is free," 50,000 of his Gold Coast countrymen cheered him to the skies. Last week, pulling up to Accra's National Assembly building in a new Rolls-Royce, flanked by jeep outriders, golden-tongued Premier Nkrumah jovially waved a handkerchief to the surrounding crowd and waited for the customary applause. What he got instead was a thunderous hooting-the beginning of two days of rioting in Accra, which brought 100 arrests...
...office and been replaced by Tory John Diefenbaker (who turned up on schedule). Racist South Africa's Strydom refused to come for "personal reasons" which many ascribed to an unwillingness to sit down with-or to be photographed with-the new nation of Ghana's Negro P.M., Kwame Nkrumah. New Zealand's Sidney Holland was laid up with a slipped disk. Ceylon's Solomon Bandaranaike was busy at home fighting a civil-disobedience campaign. All three sent substitutes...