Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of Ghana went to the polls last week to vote away what little freedom they have left. Up for decision in a national referendum were two proposals put forth by President Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's "Osagyefo" (Redeemer). The first would empower him to fire any judge of the High Court or Supreme Court-which would abolish Ghana's technically independent judiciary. The second, and more important-copied almost verbatim from the Soviet constitution-would make Nkrumah's Convention People's Party the country's only legal political body and, like Russia's Communist...
...bloody civil wars of the Congo to virtual bankruptcy in Guinea to the assassination of a President in Togo. Under moderate leaders like Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere, independence has brought stability. Under Red-hot redeemers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, it has sometimes brought political repression and financial ruin...
...south, in Rwanda, tribal tensions that had been building for decades erupted into murder. In Ghana, where he was entertaining Red China's Chou Enlai, Kwame Nkrumah worked relentlessly toward his goal of achieving a one-party dictatorship. In the Congo, the old bogy of secession once again threatened. And on the 34th day of independence for the clove-scented island of Zanzibar, revolt spilled hopes and blood into the azure Indian Ocean...
...Kwame Nkrumah is to Africa today what Lenin was to the Soviet Union in 1917," Ghana's Defense Minister said recently. The parallel is most apt, for Nkrumah is rapidly turning his country into an absolute dictatorship. Items last week...
...High Dedication, Kwame Nkrumah, is often called "The Aweful" by Ghana's rapturous, government-controlled press. To many of his nation's 7,000,000 people, however, The Aweful is just plain awful. Since 1956 Nkrumah has survived four assassination attempts by political foes angered by his dictatorial ways. But though 16 innocent bystanders were killed in the various efforts. Osagyefo (The Redeemer) always escaped unharmed...