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...High Dedication, Kwame Nkrumah, is often called "The Aweful" by Ghana's rapturous, government-controlled press. To many of his nation's 7,000,000 people, however, The Aweful is just plain awful. Since 1956 Nkrumah has survived four assassination attempts by political foes angered by his dictatorial ways. But though 16 innocent bystanders were killed in the various efforts. Osagyefo (The Redeemer) always escaped unharmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Jujitsu at the Palace | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...Dictator Kwame Nkrumah outdid himself last week. He not only flatly refused to free three political prisoners who had been acquitted by Ghana's highest court, but he summarily fired the judge who had presided over their trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Outrage At Law | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...Socialist Club received messages in praise of DuBois from six national and international leaders. Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, conveyed through the Ghanaian ambassador to the United States his "warm approval" of the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Socialists Hold DuBois Memorial: Nkrumah Praises Negro Leader | 11/21/1963 | See Source »

Executive officers of the club have been considering the idea of the lecture since September when they originally planned tonight's memorial meeting. They recently received a telegram from the Ghanaian ambassador to the United States informing them of the project's endorsement by Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's prime minister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Univ. Socialists Consider Annual DuBois Lecture | 11/20/1963 | See Source »

...been persecuted, peoples of the new nations did not forget him. Delegations from the United Nations visited his home. His 90th birthday was honored throughout the People's Republic of China. The Soviet Union awarded him the Lenin International Peace Prize. And at the end of his years Dr. Kwame Nkrumah invited him to come to Africa and begin what someday may be considered his greatest contribution, the Encyclopaedia Africana. He became a citizen of Ghana three years before his death. The New England boy, born when slavery died, died belonging to the re-birth of his people...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: William E. B. DuBois: 1868-1963 | 11/19/1963 | See Source »

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