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...casualties among Africa's first generation of leaders have been heavy; Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Balewa, Togo's Sylvanus Olympio, the Congo's Patrice Lumumba were all killed. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966; Kenya's brilliant young Tom Mboya was assassinated...
...this blatant act of oppression is to launch an attack against the leaders of Pan-Africanism which Portugal recognizes as in opposition to her thieving actions in the continent of Africa. Those leaders residing in Guinea are Ahmed Sekou Toure (President of Guinea), Cabral (Secretary-General of PAIGC), Osageyfo Kwame Nkrumah, and Stokeley Carmichael...
...with an emotional report to his people and a plea to them to remain alert: "Leave your books and get your arms, leave your kitchen pots and get your arms, leave your plows and get your arms." The President reportedly was being assisted in directing the battle by Kwame Nkrumah, who was deposed as President of Ghana in 1966 and has since become Guinea's best-known exile-in-residence...
...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...