Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many black radicals have attacked the Panthers for allying themselves with white radical groups. One such critic is Stokely Carmichael, now in Guinea working for the restoration of Ghana's deposed dictator, Kwame Nkrumah. Cleaver dismissed Carmichael's argument, saying: "A revolutionary movement calls for unity. Capitalism thrives on the kind of divisions some people want to keep...
Free Elections. Ghana's first republic foundered under Kwame Nkrumah, the megalomaniacal coxcomb who called himself "Osagyefo" (Redeemer). Nkrumah was toppled 44 months ago and sent into exile in nearby Guinea. He is living there on the interest that Guinea is paying on a $2,400,000 loan made during his administration. Since he was deposed, Ghana has been ruled by the National Liberation Council, a six-member coterie of army and police officers...
...Ghana, 500 soldiers out of a 10,000-man army overthrew Kwame Nkrumah's regime and hardly fired...
Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah, was a master of using his office for personal benefit. In six years of increasingly ruinous rule, the self-proclaimed "Redeemer" of Ghana managed to squander his way through the country's entire treasury of $560 million and run up another $1 billion in foreign debts. He built vast and useless public monuments as well as an overpowering presidential palace. To take care of odds and ends, he also accepted bribes in return for government favors...
...what we have achieved could be lost overnight." Yet no African leader would stamp out tribalism overnight, even if he could. For safety's sake, the leaders themselves pack their governments with fellow tribesmen. Houphouet-Boigny keeps Baule kinsmen in key posts. In his heyday, Ghana's deposed Kwame Nkrumah heavily favored aides from his Nzima tribe. Mboya, for all his brilliance, may never reach top power in Kenya because he belongs not to the dominant Kikuyu, but to the Luo. So it goes: the central fact of Africa is that no leader can ignore the tribal grouping of peoples...