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...coup was the fifth since 1966, when former President Kwame Nkrumah, who was in power when Ghana got its independence from Britain in 1957, was overthrown following widespread discontent over food shortages, corruption and extravagant government spending. Ghana has since become a case study in African nationalism gone wrong, and lately a prototype for young African countries beset with similar problems. In West Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Upper Volta and Liberia have all suffered similar revolutions within the past two years; The Gambia and Sierra Leone have narrowly avoided similar revolts. Much of the difficulty, as Rawlings insists, stems from government...
...fifth since the former British colony, once called the Gold Coast, achieved independence in 1957. Ghana has always held a special place in the hearts of African nationalists: it was the first of the black African colonies to become independent, and it was led by the eloquent and audacious Kwame Nkrumah. Ghana (pop. 11.5 million) has remained one of the world's largest cocoa producers, but its economic downfall began even before Nkrumah was overthrown...
Black Power leader Kwame Ture, formerly Stokely Carmichael, called upon Blacks to acquire political consciousness to organize the overthrow of capitalism--what he called "a backwards, stupid, vicious system doomed to fall...
...mental hospital as Daniel battles his recurring madness. Abeba's monuments are her 15 children with African names and with African pride, to carry on after she dies from cancer. "Time. Was in Azzisa's hair, thick and soft. In Zaria's bright eyes. Queenly walk. Kwame's drumming . . . Something had been recovered from The Middle Passage. After twenty-five years of birth...
...country that trail-blazed black African decolonization 21 years ago has since had an unhappy political record. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's Osagyefo or Redeemer, was deposed by a 1966 military coup because his grandiose economic mismanagement had hobbled the nation with debt at the same time that the world cocoa market slumped. The next civilian government lasted only three years before Prime Minister Kofi Busia was ousted by the army. Last week General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, 46, who took over in 1972, met a similar fate. Acheampong suddenly resigned from the army and as chairman of the ruling Supreme...