Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had never made her royal visit to Ghana. Scarcely a week after her departure, all signs that Kwame Nkrumah would seek closer relations with the British Commonwealth and ease the repressive measures against his opponents had vanished. Still in jail, with little hope of release, were more than 1,000 Ghanaians rounded up during the visit, ostensibly for the Queen's security. Decorations praising the Queen were quickly struck, and newspapers abruptly dropped any mention of the tour...
Past the modern new general hospital building in the central Ghana town of Kumasi last week drove a sound truck blaring: "The man is coming. The light of Africa will soon arrive." But Africa's light, Kwame Nkrumah, got a low-candlepower reception from hospital staff and patients as he awaited his guests, Britain's touring Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip. The silence that surrounded Osagyefo (The Redeemer) was broken only when the royal pair arrived, to a loud burst of applause...
Nkrumah's chagrin was complete moments later as he escorted the royal visitors through the hospital. Unknown to Osagyefo, a patient (for a glandular disorder) in one of the wards was seven-year-old Kwame Appiah, son of recently jailed Nkrumah foe, Joe Appiah, and his wife Peggy, daughter of Britain's late Sir Stafford Cripps. Unaware of the boy's identity, the Queen greeted him perfunctorily, then moved on. But prominently displayed on the child's bedside table was a photograph of his father and grandmother, Lady Cripps. Suddenly realizing who the woman...
Thus Queen Elizabeth II agreed with Macmillan last week when he conveyed to her his Cabinet's advice that she should carry out her royal visit to Ghana, despite a spate of bombing incidents in Accra protesting the rule of Kwame Nkrumah. Fearful of the Queen's safety, Macmillan dispatched Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys once again to Ghana to see if the outbursts of violence warranted the cancellation of the visit. After satisfying himself that the Queen would be safe, Sandys flew back to London with the go-ahead signal...
...lining, Britain-baiting Kwame Nkrumah is not likely to pull out of the British Commonwealth as long as Ghana is in its present, near-disastrous financial trouble and can still benefit from the Commonwealth's preferential tariffs...