Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his six years as Ghana's boss, President Kwame Nkrumah has dealt with his opposition in a variety of ways -intimidation, jail, exile. Last week he went a step further. In a packed courtroom in Accra, where mine detectors were used to check spectators for weapons, an Nkrumah-created tribunal passed out death sentences to five enemies of the regime...
...Spain's Francisco Franco is the only other dictator with legal life tenure as chief of state. Ghana's strongman President, Kwame Nkrumah, was voted permanently into office in September, but His High Dedication modestly vetoed the gesture, preferring to rely on elections-a safe enough gesture since the country is officially a one-party state...
Suspicion immediately focused on Ghana's Strongman Kwame Nkrumah, who has conducted a bitter feud with Olympio over control of the powerful, 700,000-member Ewe (pronounced Evvy) tribe, which was split between both countries by European boundary-setters. Twice before, assassins had tried to kill Olympio; each time Ghana's agents were accused. But this time it was Olympio's own zealous economies that brought disaster...
Though Ghana is 28% Christian, for most of its people politics is the highest religion and Kwame Nkrumah, known as Osagyefo (the Redeemer), the nearest thing to a god. Upset by this state of affairs, the Rt. Rev. Richard Roseveare, 60, Anglican Bishop of Accra, spoke out last August against the country's growing "godlessness" and deplored such slogans as "Africa has her own god and Nkrumah is his Jesus." As far as the government was concerned Roseveare's attitude was blasphemy, and he was given just nine hours to get out of the country...
...Kwame Nkrumah, who dreams of controlling all of black Africa, last week was scarcely able to control his own capital...