Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly, like the Red Sea parting before the Israelites,the noisy crowd opened. Through a forest of waving palm branches, an open car bore a husky black man with fine-sculptured lips, melancholy eyes and a halo of frizzy black hair. The Right Honorable Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroom-ah), Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Arts, Doctor of Law and Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, waved a white handkerchief to his countrymen as they fought to touch the hem of his tunic. Then, as the band hit the groove, he jigged his broad shoulders in time to the whirling...
...happy-go-lucky Gold Coasters have been chosen by Imperial Britain to pioneer its boldest experiment in African home rule. In 1951 the British gave the Gold Coast its first democratic constitution; last year they designated as Prime Minister a histrionic radical who had once openly flirted with Communism: Kwame ("Show Boy") Nkrumah. Today, in the Gold Coast cabinet, only three of eleven members are British civil servants, and in Nkrumah's words, they are cooperating in making themselves expendable...
Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was born at the jungle's edge in the mud-hut village of Nkroful, where his father, a Twi (pronounced Twee) tribesman, hammered out gold ornaments for local woodcutters. A Catholic mission taught him the three Rs, and the Fathers sent him up to the Gold Coast's Achimota College. Achi-mota crackles with black & white brains (its crest is a piano keyboard, with black & white keys playing together in harmony). Nkrumah graduated (in 1931) with an itch to teach...
Gold Coast leaders were stunned. Dr. James B. Danquah, the portly boss of U.G.C.C., frankly admitted that "it took India 25 years to gain what we are about to gain in less than two years." But Kwame Nkrumah was not satisfied. Boring from within (a technique he probably learned from London's Marxists), he enticed the younger members of U.G.C.C. into a secret "Circle" of his own. Danquah and the moderates had called for "self-government in our time"; Nkrumah went one better: "Self-Government...
Jail was probably the best thing that ever happened to Kwame Nkrumah. It made him a martyr. The British sent out sound trucks to introduce the illiterate Gold Coasters to the intricacies of voting. They got a tremendous reception, especially when word got around that the trucks had a juju that could forecast betrothal dates for the village girls. But C.P.P. did even better. They provided the Gold Coasters with a slogan ("Free-DOM"), a salute (a raised forearm with all five fingers outspread to denote the Five Freedoms), and a vision of Utopia. They also had a hero: Nkrumah...