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...Kwame Nkrumah, who dreams of controlling all of black Africa, last week was scarcely able to control his own capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Evil Spirits for Nkrumah | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...only a matter of time before Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, 46, returned to President Kwame Nkrumah's Cabinet; he has all the qualifications. A squat, bombastic bully from Ashanti, Edusei was Nkrumah's eminence noire in the Cabinet until last April, when he was finally tossed out during one of Nkrumah's brief experiments in making his colleagues practice what he preaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Crowbar Redivivus | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

When assassins tried to kill Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah with a bomb in the border village of Kulungugu last month, they almost got their man. Though it was officially denied that he had been hurt, Osagyefo (Redeemer) was wounded in the right shoulder, spent a week in the hospital wrestling with a high fever and an even nastier set of suspicions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Who Will Save the Redeemer? | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

With a touch of bravado, the Ghanaian Times invoked on Kwame Nkrumah's behalf the classic plaint: "Save me from my friends; mine enemies I can take care of." This was putting Nkrumah's plight too simply. From the way things were going in Accra, Osagyefo could no longer tell which was which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Who Will Save the Redeemer? | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...well. Sneered the Ghanaian Times as Roseveare departed: "His presence in our dear land was not conducive to the public good. Perhaps a knighthood from his imperialist monarchs and some violent falsehoods about Ghana will compensate for the egoistic propensities of this Lucifer of a priest.'' Kwame Nkrumah likes to think of himself as the future boss of Africa. Time after time, he has tried to rally the other nations around his Pan African banner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Accra's God | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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