Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dependency the size of Wyoming, scooped out of the continent's equatorial west. Since last year the Gold Coast has had 1) a written constitution, 2) a Legislative Assembly of 75 elected Negroes and nine whites, 3) a Negro Prime Minister, the first in any British colony, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Dr. Nkrumah disturbs some people in Downing Street, since he is a Marxian-Socialist who got his schooling at Pennsylvania's all-Negro Lincoln University and had to be let out of a British jail when his fellow Negroes elected him. Nevertheless, last week the British felt that...
From the White Queen. Britain's second step is a clear recognition that West Africa nationalism is here to stay. To the Gold Coast's cheering, native parliament went word that the White Queen across the seas had appointed history's first African Prime Minister: Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced nah-croom-ah). A year ago, when Britain gave the Gold Coast its first constitution, troublemaking Socialist Lawyer Nkrumah, a dedicated anticolonialist, became "Leader of Government Business," with responsibilities for health, education and commerce. Old colonial hands forecast bloody revolution, but Nkrumah, in office, cooperated with Britain...
...chanting, jigging crowd gathered before Accra's town hall as the returns came in. Thirty-one of the 38 elective seats went to the Convention People's Party, an anti-imperialist group which preaches self-government. The loudest shout arose over the victory of the C.P.P. leader Kwame Nkrumah, 41, a firebrand orator who had attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. (A.B. 1939; Bachelor of Sacred Theology, 1942; M.A. 1942, University of Pennsylvania.) Nkrumah was not among the crowd; a year ago he had been clapped into Cell No. 9 in Accra prison (two-year term) for sedition...