Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allow him to sit on it in the name of Queen Victoria. They were also angry with the British for exiling their ruler, Prempeh I to the Seychelles. The British won the war but lost the Stool, which disappeared for a while. The last king, Prempeh II, resisted Kwame Nkrumah's efforts to whittle down his powers. To this day, the Ashantis swear allegiance first to the Asantehene and second to the Republic of Ghana...
...Marcus Garvey Jr., whose late father emigrated to Harlem and founded a Back to Africa movement there in the early 1920s: "We want to be linked with the Greater Africa." Similarly, Dr. M.B. Abeng Doonquah envisions a Jamaica based on the "African socialism" of Ghana's deposed leader Kwame Nkrumah and speaks of the island as "this African outpost...
Asked by TV Interviewer David Frost to name his heroes, Black Militant Stokely Carmichael listed the late Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba, Black Panther Huey P. Newton, who was convicted of shooting a policeman, Black Muslim Leader Malcolm X, who was assassinated, and the former President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. And what about whites? "I couldn't say who was my hero," said Carmichael, in Manhattan after a 14-month African exile. "But if you could ask me who I think was the greatest white man-" "Who was that?" asked Frost. "I would think Adolf Hitler," said Stokely impulsively...