Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesterday, while Nkrumah was in Peking to discuss peace measures for Vietnam, army and police officers seized control of the government and dissolved Nkrumah's Convention People's Party...
According to Emmanuel A. Osel '66, the junior army officers who engineered the coup will be overpowered by loyalist forces stationed in Northern Ghana. He added that most Ghanians are loyal to Nkrumah and would support his return to power...
Frederick O. Akuffo '66 said that most Ghanians have been hostile to Nkrumah's "corrupt ministers," but would support Nkrumah because of his personal magnetism. "He is one of Africa's most dynamic leaders," Akuffo asserted...
Following the rebels' seizure of power thousands of Ghanians poured into the streets of Accra--dancing, drinking, and merrymaking. They destroyed statues labeled "founder of the country" that Nkrumah had erected to himself...
Martin L. Kilson Jr., lecturer on government, asserted that the army is sure to retain control of Ghana. Nkrumah ran "an authoritarian regime with a fair dose of terrorism," Kilson said. He added that the people of Ghana resented Nkrumah's extravagant expenditures to promote the doctrine of Pan-Africanism...